Don Rickles Quotes
When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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Bring on the snow, if we have to come out with the snow blowers, we will. Fifteen to 20 inches, that is a little scary, but we can handle the 3 to 6 inches.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
