Don Rickles Quotes

• 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 my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.

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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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• I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

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

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• Funny is funny.

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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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• My whole act is off the top of my head.

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

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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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• 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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• You throw your best punch, otherwise don’t do it.

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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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• When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can’t please everyone. But when you’re different, you can last.

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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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• Struggling is hard because you never know what’s at the end of the tunnel.

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

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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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• 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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• Who picks your clothes – Stevie Wonder?

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Birth:	8th May, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Donald Jay "Don" Rickles was born in Queens, New York City, New York. He is an American stand-up comedian and actor. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Show with David Letterman, he has also acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic. He also appeared in the popular Beach Party film series. In 1968, Rickles released a live comedy album, Hello, Dummy!

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