Don Rickles Quotes
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I still have drive, but everything is relative.
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Honestly, I didn't realize it - all of a sudden, I was 90. The years skipped by quickly. When it happened, I said, 'Where did the time go?'
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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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Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
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The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.
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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
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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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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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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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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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The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
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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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My wife is great. She always goes to the bank to see if the check has cleared.
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My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.
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Johnny Carson was king of the kings, in my opinion.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
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Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find 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.
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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.