Don Rickles Quotes

Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.

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• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Words
  • Moments
  • Daughter

• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Power
  • Person
  • Genius

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Theatre
  • Actor
  • Wings

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Home
  • Free
  • Reading

• Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Dating
  • Dinner

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Successful

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Society
  • Like

• Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Art
  • Reading

• I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

  

  David Furnish
  • Great
  • Art
  • Photography

• You don't write 'God Save The Queen' because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up
  • God
  • Song

• I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Long
  • Betrayal
  • Betrayed

• Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Why