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.

Don Rickles

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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.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Stage
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• 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.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Religion

• An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Purpose
  • Never
  • Noble

• I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Society
  • Education
  • Advocate

• 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.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Want
  • Design

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• 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.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Life
  • God
  • Money

• Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Color

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Know
  • Gay

• Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Education
  • Food

• The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Real
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Real
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • God
  • Country
  • Mind

• I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Business
  • Learning

• Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

  

  Brad Furman
  • Trust
  • Feet
  • Instincts

• Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Work
  • Growth

• You know how a fighter always comes into the dressing room way before a fight? That's me - I'm like a fighter.

  

  Don Rickles