Don Rickles Quotes
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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 still have drive, but everything is relative.
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I told jokes badly.
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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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Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.
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Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
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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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I've never had a written script.
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Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
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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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I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.
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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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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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When I'm onstage, I'm acting.
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Everything I've performed has been from my own head.
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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
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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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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.