Don Rickles Quotes

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Don Rickles

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 8, 1926

My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn't concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I'm not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king.

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The inaugural of Ronald Reagan, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. And that was the greatest thing. Ronald Reagan and George Bush. That was - I still remember like it was yesterday.

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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.

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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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There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.

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It takes many years to be a great comedian.

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I don't like to compare myself with anybody.

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My whole act is off the top of my head.

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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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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.

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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

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I've never gone to comedy clubs.

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My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

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Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

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Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

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I never went out looking for glory.

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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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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

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