Don Rickles Quotes
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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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I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.
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Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
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Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
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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've never had a written script.
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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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I told jokes badly.
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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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Everything I've performed has been from my own head.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
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My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.
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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 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 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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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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I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.