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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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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That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
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Don't forget the late '70s was dominated by people like the Queen of Disco Donna Summer and everybody who was in that bag. We were already in dance mode, the Bee Gees were out with the most fantastic record the world had ever heard, so the world was in the mode. Anything outside of that mode was secondary.
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That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
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We’ve had to change our approach for how we do it all, but, ultimately, the one thing counts is being able to play live.
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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.
