The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said 'What'd I do? What'd I do?'
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Related Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth) ELVIS PRESLEY Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, ... PERCY SLEDGE I was scared they wouldn't let me do it. So I had to wear my jacket, and I was driving like that the... GEOFF PARKER I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do! JOHN PETERS I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a s... EVEL KNIEVEL It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a... BARRY CRYER My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive pe... SPIKE MILLIGAN I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' b... HANNIBAL BURESS It scared me to death. It scared everybody. To be honest with you, it scared me so bad I can't even ... JAMIE WINBORN I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed lik... FANNIE LOU HAMER Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me? JOHN SHORT What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed l... FANNIE LOU HAMER What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th... DALEEN IRSHAID Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't -- then of ... , THE TURING OPTION When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my bod... ALEXANDRE PATO I couldnt kill myself, couldnt let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments... , THE PROGRAM. 2013 Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo... DONALD MILLER Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy. ALBERT II OF BELGIUM Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, the... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have cont... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recogni... PRINCE CHARLES There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast cov... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they ... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt. PRINCESS MARGARET God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Althoug... JANE GREY No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently. MARIE ANTOINETTE To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be ... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear ... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that rea... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew a... SARAH FERGUSON A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. QUEEN VICTORIA I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. QUEEN VICTORIA You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. PRINCESS DIANA I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir... MARIE LOUISE Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adherin... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I. CHARLES V It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN A good name is rather to be chosen than riches. KING SOLOMON He who defends everything defends nothing. FREDERICK THE GREAT Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. PRINCE PHILIP I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. NICHOLAS II OF RUSSIA Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him. LOUIS XIV No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability. MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a... MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM Were I not a king, I would be a university man. KING JAMES I I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. PRINCE CHARLES I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this cou... PRINCESS DIANA I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. MARIE ANTOINETTE Iron hand in a velvet glove. CHARLES V We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. QUEEN VICTORIA My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.' QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating pe... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it dimini... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
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Ah just act the way ah feel. ELVIS PRESLEY When things go wrong, don't go with them. ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. ELVIS PRESLEY When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th... ELVIS PRESLEY I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid. ELVIS PRESLEY I don't make no dirty movements ELVIS PRESLEY It more or less puts your mind at ease, ... It does mine. ELVIS PRESLEY We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made, ELVIS PRESLEY A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o... ELVIS PRESLEY Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. ELVIS PRESLEY I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes. ELVIS PRESLEY I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, ... ELVIS PRESLEY Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now. ELVIS PRESLEY Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w... ELVIS PRESLEY There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out. ELVIS PRESLEY I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to ge... ELVIS PRESLEY Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me. ELVIS PRESLEY better stick to driving trucks. ELVIS PRESLEY I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hund... ELVIS PRESLEY I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the w... ELVIS PRESLEY I'll stay in Memphis. ELVIS PRESLEY I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,... ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away. ELVIS PRESLEY After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. ELVIS PRESLEY My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body. ELVIS PRESLEY It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ELVIS PRESLEY When I get married, it'll be no secret. ELVIS PRESLEY Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got th... ELVIS PRESLEY I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example. ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ELVIS PRESLEY I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, pu... ELVIS PRESLEY A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o... ELVIS PRESLEY Those people in New York are not gonna change me none. ELVIS PRESLEY There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ... ELVIS PRESLEY I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. ELVIS PRESLEY People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi... ELVIS PRESLEY Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one ELVIS PRESLEY If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dolla... ELVIS PRESLEY Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. ELVIS PRESLEY Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth) ELVIS PRESLEY When things go wrong don't go with them ELVIS PRESLEY Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside ELVIS PRESLEY I like entertaining people. I really miss it. ELVIS PRESLEY I'm no hillbilly singer. ELVIS PRESLEY I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm si... ELVIS PRESLEY I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public a... ELVIS PRESLEY I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the l... ELVIS PRESLEY People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. ELVIS PRESLEY Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me. ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it... ELVIS PRESLEY I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play. ELVIS PRESLEY The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more year... ELVIS PRESLEY The army teaches boys to think like men. ELVIS PRESLEY Man, I really like Vegas. ELVIS PRESLEY Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre... ELVIS PRESLEY I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hu... ELVIS PRESLEY People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi... ELVIS PRESLEY Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed! ELVIS PRESLEY Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes. ELVIS PRESLEY Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happ... ELVIS PRESLEY Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one ELVIS PRESLEY A Sharon. ELVIS PRESLEY You got change, man? ELVIS PRESLEY Illusions of The King. ELVIS PRESLEY and I got the collection my Mother had, and I can't sell any of it. ELVIS PRESLEY Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time ELVIS PRESLEY Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happen... ELVIS PRESLEY When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis. ELVIS PRESLEY I ain't no saint, but I have tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I f... ELVIS PRESLEY Those movies sure got me into a rut. ELVIS PRESLEY The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first reco... ELVIS PRESLEY I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause ... ELVIS PRESLEY I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man... ELVIS PRESLEY I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around. ELVIS PRESLEY I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show. ELVIS PRESLEY Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them. ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ELVIS PRESLEY Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. ELVIS PRESLEY The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year. ELVIS PRESLEY Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. ELVIS PRESLEY I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare... ELVIS PRESLEY I never expected to be anybody important. ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. ELVIS PRESLEY I learned a lot from 'Elvis' because it wasn't just the impersonator I had to watch, ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put i... ELVIS PRESLEY I am hands on with this with Bruno, ELVIS PRESLEY The interior of the car consists of reupholstered seats, as well as Elvis' initials on the inside of... ELVIS PRESLEY Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I j... ELVIS PRESLEY When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw ... ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go
away. ELVIS PRESLEY Just a minute, ELVIS PRESLEY I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he... ELVIS PRESLEY When things go bad, don't go with them. ELVIS PRESLEY Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big.... ELVIS PRESLEY It was during Elvis' 18-month assignment in West Germany when he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, who was... ELVIS PRESLEY I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that. ELVIS PRESLEY I don't do any vulgar movements. ELVIS PRESLEY I was an overnight sensation. ELVIS PRESLEY That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave. ELVIS PRESLEY Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. ELVIS PRESLEY I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to dr... ELVIS PRESLEY Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self. PRISCILLA PRESLEY He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way... PRISCILLA PRESLEY As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen... PRISCILLA PRESLEY We will continue to add to the Music Wall of Fame as pictures are brought in. WADE PRESLEY Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, onc... PRISCILLA PRESLEY There is the understanding of the music and culture of the area. The band has studied the idea of th... WADE PRESLEY At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY As we grow and expand our retail and direct sales presence, so has our need to expand our distributi... DAVE PRESLEY When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell o... PRISCILLA PRESLEY It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that... PRISCILLA PRESLEY Local, county and state officials responded very positively to REI locating in Bedford, which has a ... DAVE PRESLEY I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole... PRISCILLA PRESLEY The state's support and understanding of our business needs has been truly amazing, and we look forw... DAVE PRESLEY I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible. PRISCILLA PRESLEY Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ELVIS COSTELLO It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see... ELVIS MITCHELL 'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the audi... ELVIS MITCHELL One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a &... ELVIS MITCHELL The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the mos... ELVIS MITCHELL 'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn,... ELVIS MITCHELL Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the... ELVIS MITCHELL Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the compl... ELVIS MITCHELL Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting th... ELVIS COSTELLO if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis... ELVIS HODZIC The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that... ELVIS MITCHELL Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially ... ELVIS MITCHELL 'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like p... ELVIS MITCHELL His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated '... ELVIS MITCHELL Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman wit... ELVIS MITCHELL I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why. ELVIS COSTELLO Oh, I know that she's disgusted, cause she's feeling so abused. She gets tired of the lust... ELVIS COSTELLO In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.... ELVIS MITCHELL It's a breath you took too late. It's a death that's worse than fate. ELVIS COSTELLO No use wishing now for any other sin. ELVIS COSTELLO So you take her to the pictures, trying to become a fixture. Inch by inch trying to reach ... ELVIS COSTELLO One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Mal... ELVIS MITCHELL When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you fi... ELVIS STOJKO The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work... ELVIS MITCHELL That is a factor that has helped sentiment today. Canada is a prime target for many overseas buyers ... ELVIS PICARDO It's a very low-pressure thing. It's a chance for people to have a good time and maybe meet someone ... ELVIS DURAN I never thought that could happen. ELVIS DUMERVIL The offense did a great job, the defense did a great job. It was an overall great team effort. ELVIS DUMERVIL We've got a lot of packages we're going to throw at him. Not a lot extra, but there's two big things... ELVIS DUMERVIL But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve. ELVIS COSTELLO There's no such thing as an original sin. ELVIS COSTELLO Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about ... ELVIS STOJKO You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fres... ELVIS STOJKO Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her n... ELVIS MITCHELL The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'... ELVIS MITCHELL We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific... ELVIS COSTELLO Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitl... ELVIS MITCHELL If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, an... ELVIS MITCHELL We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we'r... ELVIS MITCHELL The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and ... ELVIS MITCHELL I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going... ELVIS COSTELLO The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minut... ELVIS MITCHELL Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation. ELVIS MITCHELL Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do ELVIS COSTELLO The words that are being spoken are serious, whether you take them at face value or listen to them a... ELVIS COSTELLO I've been asked to sing and that's what I do. People come (to this event) for all the right reasons. ELVIS COSTELLO Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and th... ELVIS MITCHELL People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them. ELVIS MITCHELL She's no angel. He's no saint. ELVIS COSTELLO The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomeno... ELVIS MITCHELL 'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds ... ELVIS MITCHELL 'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged g... ELVIS MITCHELL The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich. ELVIS MITCHELL The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those sq... ELVIS MITCHELL 'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad. ELVIS MITCHELL I think next week's meeting will be absolutely crucial. If the half-point rate cut is not materializ... ELVIS PICARDO The Drake Relays is invitation only. We have a number of kids that won't compete this weekend. We're... ELVIS FORDE Of course, that may be all they have in common, ... But there's always a chance you'll meet someone ... ELVIS DURAN The second half he came out and the crowd got into it and he got a lot of energy. Momentum swung the... ELVIS DUMERVIL It basically shows he's a no-character person. My left knee still hurts. He was talking garbage the ... ELVIS DUMERVIL Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-... ELVIS MITCHELL After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find somet... ELVIS STOJKO I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself th... ELVIS STOJKO My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ELVIS STOJKO I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure. ELVIS STOJKO I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole... PRISCILLA PRESLEY When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell o... PRISCILLA PRESLEY You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY My mom is 79, my dad is 80. I felt they had so much to add, and we didn't want them to pass on and f... PRISCILLA PRESLEY 'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi l... ELVIS MITCHELL Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a M... ELVIS MITCHELL And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write ... ELVIS COSTELLO Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, an... ELVIS MITCHELL If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that wil... ELVIS MITCHELL What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a j... ELVIS MITCHELL 'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w... ELVIS COSTELLO Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up st... ELVIS MITCHELL '8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a ... ELVIS MITCHELL Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consump... ELVIS MITCHELL Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks lik... ELVIS MITCHELL Seems to me, that the worlds are moving closer together rather than one invading the other. I believ... ELVIS COSTELLO