Don Rickles Quotes
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Quotes to Explore
-
In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
-
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
-
Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
-
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
-
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
-
First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
-
The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
-
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
-
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
-
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
-
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
-
My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
-
Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
-
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
-
I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
-
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
-
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
-
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
-
And then Phil walked into the room. I'm not certain exactly what he'd prepared -- I think it was a scenario involving a death in the family -- but he was a mess, bright red, sobbing, you couldn't even understand what he was saying half the time. But it was powerful. He was this 16-year-old ex-jock, and I remember very distinctly feeling that if I was going to act, I'd have to get serious about it. Because this guy completely gets it.
-
I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
-
Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.
-
Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
-
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
