Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I've always had great faith in people.

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

I love taking chances.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

I don't really believe in regrets.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

We could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer form the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

I just want to have a normal life, like everyone else, you know?

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.