Top 200 Elvis Presley Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.”

— Elvis Presley

152. “I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”

— Elvis Presley

153. “My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.”

— Elvis Presley

154. “Hey buddy, don’t you be no square, if you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.”

— Elvis Presley

155. “I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.”

— Elvis Presley

156. “Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.”

— Elvis Presley

157. “I’m not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I’m singing, I’m dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.”

— Elvis Presley

158. “In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that’s not too flashy. But onstage, I like ’em as flashy as you can get ’em.”

— Elvis Presley

159. “When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn’t it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.”

— Elvis Presley

160. “It’s all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I’ve never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.”

— Elvis Presley

161. “I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.”

— Elvis Presley

162. “There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.”

— Elvis Presley

163. “You don’t like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it’s nice and dark.”

— Elvis Presley

164. “I’ll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that’s how I will be.”

— Elvis Presley

165. “When we’re dancing it almost feels the same, I’ve got to stop myself from whispering your name.”

— Elvis Presley

166. “I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.”

— Elvis Presley

167. “I’m never going to sing another song I don’t believe in. I’m never going to make another picture I don’t believe in.”

— Elvis Presley

168. “I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that’s vulgar. I’d never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.”

— Elvis Presley

169. “C’mon, let’s get real, real gone.”

— Elvis Presley

170. “Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it’s the latest scoop. But that’s alright girls, you can call it goop.”

— Elvis Presley

171. “If you wanna be loved, baby, you’ve got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an’t for no one side love affair.”

— Elvis Presley

172. “Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.”

— Elvis Presley

173. “Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes – just real.”

— Elvis Presley

174. “There’s no room to Rhumba in a sports car.”

— Elvis Presley

175. “Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn’t do anything but just jiggle.”

— Elvis Presley

176. “Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”

— Elvis Presley

177. “I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.”

— Elvis Presley

178. “If one can’t give what they have and share then they will always be empty.”

— Elvis Presley

179. “In my beach shack, we’ll be alone. In my beach shack, I’ll make you feel at home.”

— Elvis Presley

180. “I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.”

— Elvis Presley

181. “I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ’cause they’re screaming all the time.”

— Elvis Presley

182. “If you’re smart, you’ll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.”

— Elvis Presley

183. “Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.”

— Elvis Presley

184. “I was almost always true to you.”

— Elvis Presley

185. “You’re just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain’t greedy baby, all I want is all you got.”

— Elvis Presley

186. “Man, I really like Vegas.”

— Elvis Presley

187. “Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?”

— Elvis Presley

188. “Money honey, if you want to get along with me.”

— Elvis Presley

189. “I wouldn’t call girls a hobby. It’s a pastime.”

— Elvis Presley

190. “I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.”

— Elvis Presley

191. “I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.”

— Elvis Presley

192. “The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.”

— Elvis Presley

193. “Look guys, if you’re just going to stare at me, I’m going to bed!”

— Elvis Presley

194. “Singers come and go, but if you’re a good actor, you can last a long time.”

— Elvis Presley

195. “Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.”

— Elvis Presley

196. “Folks always look good in their coffins.”

— Elvis Presley

197. “My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.”

— Elvis Presley

198. “The sun’s down and the moon’s pretty – it’s time to ramble.”

— Elvis Presley

199. “The only kind of trouble I’ve ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.”

— Elvis Presley

200. “Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.”

— Elvis Presley