Don Rickles Quotes
I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I got a big mouth.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.
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I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.
