Don Rickles Quotes
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When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.
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You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
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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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Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.
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I did a few movies, but the word 'star'... I cannot compare to a star like Clint Eastwood. I used to call Clint 'Larry Dickman' when he would come to my show; then, he started using the name when he would go under cover in a 'Dirty Harry' movie. That's why he's a movie star... he's so creative.
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Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
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I've never gone to comedy clubs.
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I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.
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Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.
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I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.
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Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I did. Of course, they exaggerated how outrageous I really was.
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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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After over 50 years of headlining, I've been received very beautifully. But I always say, when you're onstage, you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's OK.
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I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.
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Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint Eastwood.' Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?
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Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.
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To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.
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Girls were scared of me because I can be loud. Barbara, my wife of 51 years, is very low-key. She was my picture agent's secretary.
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Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.
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My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.
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I didn't get married until I was 38.
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There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
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Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.