The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

You wave your hands up to the sky, kick your legs to the side. Are you ready, let's do the Freddie.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

A positive Mindset attracts Success like a magnet and a negative one loves to marry failure, procrastination and comfortable environment that sobs in mediocrity and impossibility.

Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can't get on your own.

Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.

Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.

The perfect recipe for a margarita is 2 ounces tequila, 2 ounces fresh lime juice, 1 ounce Cointreau, and a tiny splash of some kind of an agave or orange juice.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.