Quotes by Don Rickles

About Don Rickles:

Donald Jay 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.
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I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

Don Rickles

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

Don Rickles

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

Don Rickles

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

Don Rickles

I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

Don Rickles

Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.

Don Rickles

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

Don Rickles

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.

Don Rickles

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.

Don Rickles

I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.

Don Rickles

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

Don Rickles

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

Don Rickles

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

Don Rickles

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Don Rickles

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Don Rickles

Author Bio

  • NameDon Rickles
  • DescriptionAmerican stand-up comedian, actor
  • BornMay 8, 1926
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Presenter
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award