Wayne Newton

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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've always had great faith in people.”

“I don't really believe in regrets.”

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

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

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

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

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

“When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.”

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

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

“I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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