Don Rickles Quotes
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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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Everything I've performed has been from my own head.
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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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An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.
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I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.
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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
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I told jokes badly.
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You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they'll laugh.
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Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
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I still have drive, but everything is relative.
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Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
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I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.'
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I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.
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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.
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Diana Krall I met in, I think it was Canada. She's a lovely lady. Her husband, Elvis Costello, is a great star.
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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.
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I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.