If I'm the boss, get the world off my back.
Elvis Presley
Jonathan Rhys Meyers · 71 quotes
Colonel Tom Parker
Randy Quaid · 47 quotes
Sam Phillips
Tim Guinee · 10 quotes
Gladys Presley
Camryn Manheim · 9 quotes
Vernon Presley
Robert Patrick · 9 quotes
Steve Binder
Jack Noseworthy · 7 quotes
Scotty Moore
Mark Adam · 5 quotes
Jerry Schilling
4 quotes
Priscilla Beaulieu
4 quotes
Most scenes together: Elvis Presley & Colonel Tom Parker (12), Elvis Presley & Vernon Presley (8), Elvis Presley & Gladys Presley (6)
Elvis quotes
Page 7 of 8In that moment, in a flash of lightning, I watched that skinny boy transform into a superhero.
It doesn't matter if you do ten stupid things, as long as you do one smart one.
It seems that Mr Ed Sullivan has lost his ten foot pole. You're on the show.
It was the greatest carnival attraction I'd ever seen. He was my destiny. Right under my nose... in Memphis. Just why a truck driver from Memphis, Tennessee, liked to hang out on Beale Street, I do not know. But it did him no favors, fitting into them white housing projects. He was crazy for that Beale Street music. Beale Street style. He had Beale Street stars in his eyes.
Me, I think nationwide. [laughs] I think worldwide. I dream in Technicolor.
No, no, I didn't kill him. I made Elvis Presley. Nothing all those muckrakers said in their books was true. Me and Elvis, we was partners. It was Elvis the Showman and the Colonel the Snowman. I always knew I was destined for greatness. As an orphan, I ran away to the carnival, where I learned the art of the "snow job," of emptying a rube's wallet while leaving them with nothing but a smile on their face. But a carnival act that would get you the most money, the most snow, had great costumes and a unique trick, that gave the audience feelings they weren't sure they should enjoy. But they do. And I knew if I could find such an act, I could create the greatest... show... on... Earth.
Now you listen to me. The only thing that matters is that that man gets up on that stage tonight!
Now, I don't know nothing about music. But I could see in that girl's eyes, he was a taste of forbidden fruit. She could have eaten him alive!
One day, I'm gonna be the man in the big house.
Since the day he was born, she had feared losing her second son. While he was in basic training, she worried and drank. Worried and drank.
Some people wanted to put me in jail, because of the way I was moving.
Sometimes, a song and a singer don't necessarily go together.
That night, I happened to see him. Alone. Lost. A snowman is only as good... as his attraction.
The finger, that's right, the finger. I was down in Florida, and the state police decided to come and film my show. All I had to stand still, and all I could move was this little finger here. [jokingly hums and moves his finger] It got more applause than I did.