Don Rickles Quotes
To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.
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He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scenes, which is a lot for a TV show. And I don't think we ever work over 12 hours. But that's because we don't really rehearse. We don't. We get some notes and maybe Denis changes this bit of writing or that. He's so present. He has a special talent in that he's so truthful. Working with him, you just fly with the material. He's very centred and very generous.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
