And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland is suited for a king and it is his castle. And people really should see it, as he loved it.

At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

I don't want to be someone's entertainment.

You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

You know, Lisa, for the longest time, did not sing.

Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once - once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no - there was no going back. He was just a great guy.

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.

You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

We all want to experience that in our lives - a moment when we're two feet off the ground - and making movies gives you that opportunity. It comes and it goes so fast that it's unreal, but it does happen.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Critique feedback reaction to ones work or the way they have presented it regardless of intention is a gift.

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.