Wayne Newton Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Several months ago, he went through some real hard times, ... He was depressed, angry, he wouldn't get out of bed.

Given (Scotty's Paving) circumstances, I don't think the Fiscal Court should hold (the company's) feet to the fire,

I get his fan mail, and take it to work. I've gotten boxes of persimmons, all kinds of stuff, ... One day a woman showed up from New Jersey, asking me for the donation I promised. I told her that she's probably looking for the Wayne Newton who lives in Las Vegas.

uses (Kyle) as an inspiration. He says when he thinks about Kyle, 'I haven't got any problems.' Kyle is an inspiration to people, but he may not know 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.

The time has come after an incredible six years to move on to new challenges,

After the events of 9-11, the one group of people who were forgotten were our military, the Pentagon, the people who carry the message for us.

After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.

It's interesting, but in the last five or six years, the audiences are dressing better.

In the 1970s, you couldn't do a television show from Las Vegas because you couldn't find a sponsor. In my view, Las Vegas has become the place to perform versus any other place in the world.

And I say it's not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.

I've always had great faith in people.

I love taking chances.

I dont really believe in regrets.

One of the reasons I was so proud to be born on April 3, is because I am such a big fan of yours.