Don Rickles Quotes
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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.
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I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
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Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.
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I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
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I can get an audience screaming in Las Vegas and say, 'Barbara, that was a great show,' and she'll say, 'Would you please hurry up? We have dinner reservations at 9:30.'
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I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day.
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I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.
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Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.
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My mother was a Jewish General Patton.
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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.
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If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.
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Frank Sinatra. Hey, Frank, I saw you in 'The Pride and Passion,' and I want to tell you the cannon was wonderful!
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At 90, I'm still working a couple of dates a month. My mind is very sharp on the stage, so why not? This may sound corny, but I do it because people - young and old - still come to see me, and they're very enthusiastic about my work. They treat me like the Godfather.
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I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.
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To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
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Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
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I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.
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The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.
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Sinatra was somebody special.
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I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.