Don Rickles Quotes

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Don Rickles

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 8, 1926

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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

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When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

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I was a mother's boy.

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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

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In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.

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I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

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I told jokes badly.

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I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

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I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.

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Funny is funny.

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

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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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I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

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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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I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

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I write my own tweets.

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If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

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