Frankie Avalon Quotes

#1. Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

Rona Barrett

#2. No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

Frankie Avalon

#3. I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Frankie Avalon

#4. The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.

Frankie Avalon

#5. They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

Frankie Avalon

#6. I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

Frankie Avalon

#7. I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

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#8. I love a bit of passion.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

#9. I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#10. Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Frankie Avalon

#11. I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.

Frankie Avalon

#12. The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

Raymond Chandler

#13. When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

Frankie Avalon

#14. I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

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#15. Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

William Shakespeare

#16. Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

Ovid

#17. If you want someone to tell you what to think ... "
"You will never be short of people willing to do so.

Frances Hardinge

#18. It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

Frankie Avalon

#19. They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

Frankie Avalon

#20. I was not a trained actor.

Frankie Avalon

#21. Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

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#22. Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

Lionel Fisher

#23. Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

Frankie Avalon

#24. These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.

Frankie Avalon

#25. I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

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#26. I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.

Frankie Avalon

#27. Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

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#28. Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Frankie Avalon