Wayne Newton Quotes (27 Quotes)


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

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


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

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


    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.


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

    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.

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

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

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


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

    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.

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

    Mere hours after Bush gave his inaugural address stressing themes of American unity, the parade's first float Celebrating America's Spirit Together ... Old Glory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    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 911 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 911 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.

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


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