Don Rickles Quotes
I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.
Quotes to Explore
-
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
-
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
-
I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
-
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
-
People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
-
Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
-
Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
-
I've always taken direction pretty well.
-
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
-
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
-
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
-
I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
-
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
-
However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
-
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
-
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.
-
The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
-
I think comedy is funnier when it's real.
-
In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
-
It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.
-
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
-
The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
-
The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.
-
I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.
