Frankie Avalon Quotes : American actress and singer. Frankie Avalon Born September 18, 1939, Philadelphia
1- “I’ve been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.” -Frankie Avalon Quotes
2- “I never thought that ‘Grease’ would be a smash. I turned it down at first.” -Frankie Avalon
3- “These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.” -Frankie Avalon
4- “There have been a lot of memorable meals in my life and in my career.” -Frankie Avalon
5- “For me, the biggest successes I’ve ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.” -Frankie Avalon
6- “Yes, but I don’t think of the Teen Angel as of an age.” -Frankie Avalon
7- “I definitely remember doing ‘The Alamo’ with John Wayne and Lawrence Harvey and Linda Cristal. We’d work six days a week, and then John Wayne would invite us down to a little place in Texas called Del Rio, and we would break bread and have some wine and tell stories.” -Frankie Avalon
8- “The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.” -Frankie Avalon
9- “When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.” -Frankie Avalon
10- “They weren’t great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.” -Frankie Avalon
11- “I guess I’ve maintained my hair. I’m like a Donald Trump. I have a good, solid head of hair, and that’s been my trademark all these years.” -Frankie Avalon
12- “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
14- “When I was a kid, we’d go crabbing, as a lot of folks do on the East Coast, and we’d catch some fresh crabs and take it home, and Mom would turn it into this unbelievable crab gravy – or, as they say, sauce.” -Frankie Avalon
15- “Think today’s music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.” -Frankie Avalon
16- “I still have the tradition of Sunday dinners at my house, and I make all kinds of different Italian foods, and there’s a lot of fun going on.” -Frankie Avalon
17- “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
18- “I’m not a chef: I’m a cook.” -Frankie Avalon
19- “Well, we all age, but I’d been taking herbal supplements for a long time.” -Frankie Avalon
20- “‘Grease’ is the most successful thing I’ve ever been part of. It spans generations.” -Frankie Avalon
21- “When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.” -Frankie Avalon
22- “If you watch ‘American Idol,’ and you close your eyes, you don’t know who’s singing because they all sound exactly alike.” -Frankie Avalon
23- “I was not a trained actor.” -Frankie Avalon
24- “I love Billy Joel’s music, but let’s put it this way – I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.” -Frankie Avalon
25- “Wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn’t even correspond at this point.” -Frankie Avalon
26- “I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.” -Frankie Avalon
27- “People started asking Rocco to have me sing.” -Frankie Avalon
28- “Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray’s Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.” -Frankie Avalon
29- “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
30- “No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.” -Frankie Avalon
31- “It captures a lot of the spirit of the ’50s.” -Frankie Avalon
32- “Wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners.” -Frankie Avalon
33- “I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.” -Frankie Avalon
