Don Rickles Quotes
You know how a fighter always comes into the dressing room way before a fight? That's me - I'm like a fighter.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
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I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.
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I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.
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When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
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Little children never know that they feel seasick, till they are.
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You know how a fighter always comes into the dressing room way before a fight? That's me - I'm like a fighter.
