Don Rickles Quotes
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I told jokes badly.
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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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Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
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I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
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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 still have drive, but everything is relative.
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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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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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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 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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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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.
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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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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
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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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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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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.