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'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.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• 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.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Way
  • Play
  • Stronger

• 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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Game

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• 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!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wounded

• Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Help
  • Luck
  • Dumb

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Body
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Wonder
  • Audience
  • Festivals

• I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Fog

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• 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.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Love
  • Plan
  • Countries

• Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Art
  • Journalism

• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Thought

• What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Idiot
  • Dollars
  • Points

• It is the fate of 'little faiths' of truth that they, true followers of Peter, whether they be Roman or the Protestant observance, cry out and sink in the sea of ideas, where the followers of Paul, believing in the Spirit, walk secure and undismayed.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Truth
  • True
  • Sea

• I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

  

  Dominic Purcell
  • Success

• And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

  

  Jamey Johnson
  • God
  • Long
  • Earth

• My mother is a Trekkie, and we're from San Diego, so I was going to Comic-Con when I was, like, 7 years old.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Mother

• I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Business
  • Bird