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  • Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

    Careers   People   Done  
  • I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.

    Fun   Hard Times   People  
    "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

    Wise   Vegas   Guy  
  • We show a lot of film [with Regis Philbin] from my career which is most enjoyable. I enjoy watching it.

    Careers   Film   Enjoy  
    Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com
  • Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

    Crazy   Thinking   Years  
    Esquire interview, bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net.
  • I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

    Night   Thinking   People  
  • I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

    People   Done   Film  
    Source: www.discdish.com
  • When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

    Fun   Crazy   Dying  
  • Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

    People   Battle   Half  
  • Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

    Fun   Black   Why Not  
  • They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

    Hurt   Fun   Insecurity  
  • It's tough having the last name Rickles. Luckily, my kids handled it great.

    Kids   Names   Lasts  
    "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.

    Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com
  • The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

  • You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

    "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.
  • When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

    Music   Kissing   Mind  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

  • It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

    East   Gigs   Break  
    Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com
  • When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

    Acting  
  • You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

    Attitude   Knows  
  • Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

    Years   Judging   Cry  
    Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com
  • 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!

    Night   Mind   Nagging  
    "'A god died today': remembering the insult comedy of Don Rickles" by Rob LeDonne, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2017.
  • I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.

    Years   Valleys   Sitting  
    Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com
  • I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

  • Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

    Funny   Clothes   Wonder  
  • What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

    Fun   Real   Mean  
    "Don Rickles (1926 - 2017)". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 5, 2017.
  • When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

    "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • 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.

    Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com
  • Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

    Mean   Opinion   Belts  
    Source: www.maxim.com
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