Donald Jay Rickles Quotes

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

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

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• I was a mother’s boy.

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• I told jokes badly.

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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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• I still have drive, but everything is relative.

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• I never went out looking for glory.

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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 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 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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• 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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• 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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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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