Don Rickles quotes
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“I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.”
-- Don RicklesSource : "TV's newest odd couple: Richard Lewis and Don Rickles to portray father and son in 'Daddy Dearest'". Interview with Greg Braxton, www.latimes.com. August 30, 1993.
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“Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.”
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“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.”
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“Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.”
-- Don Rickles#Struggle Quotes #Tunnels Quotes #Light At The End Of The Tunnel Quotes
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“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.”
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“Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.”
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“When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.”
-- Don RicklesSource : "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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“The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.”
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“I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.”
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“You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.”
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“Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.”
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“The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.”
-- Don RicklesSource : "What I've Learned: Don Rickles" By Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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“I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.”
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“It takes many years to be a great comedian.”
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“Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.”
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“My whole act is off the top of my head.”
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“Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.”
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“I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.”
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“When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.”
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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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“Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.”
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“You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.”
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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.”
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“I do situations and make fun of authority and life.”
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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 always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.”
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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 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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“I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.”
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“I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.”
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