Donald Jay Rickles Quotes

• You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.

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

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

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• You know what’s funny to me? Attitude.

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• Who picks your clothes – Stevie Wonder?

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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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• When I’m onstage, I’m acting.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

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

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• Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

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• Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

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

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

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• It takes many years to be a great comedian.

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Donald Jay Rickles (39)

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

About

Donald Jay "Don" Rickles is an American stand-up comedian and actor. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic.

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