Don Rickles Quotes
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I never went out looking for glory.
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Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.
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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 okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.
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I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.
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Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.
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My wife is great. She always goes to the bank to see if the check has cleared.
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Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
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I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.
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Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
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When I'm onstage, I'm acting.
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I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.
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When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'
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Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
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I've never had a written script.
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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
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Everything I've performed has been from my own head.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.
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I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.