Don Rickles Quotes

To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

Don Rickles

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  

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• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

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• I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.

  

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• I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

  

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• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

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• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  

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• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

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• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

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• I love New York. Love it.

  

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• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

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• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

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• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

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• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

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• North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

  

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• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

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• Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

  

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• I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'

  

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• When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

  

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• The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.

  

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• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

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• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  

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• You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

  

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• Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

  

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• To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

  

  Don Rickles
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