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"Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone."
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"When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up."

"Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking."

"Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else."

"I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch."

"Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing."

"Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here."

"So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do."

"You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!"

"I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!"
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"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things."

"I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them."

"I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans."

"They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse."

"The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up."

"Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!"

"Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts."

"My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country."
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