Andy Kaufman Quotes

Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today.

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.

I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.

When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

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

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.