Don Rickles Quotes

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Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

Don Rickles

Night, Mind, Nagging

"'A god died today': remembering the insult comedy of Don Rickles" by Rob LeDonne, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2017.

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

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People, Singing, Opera

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No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

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Beach, World, Matter

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Make Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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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Music, Kissing, Mind

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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Thinking, Doctors, Rooms

"TV's newest odd couple: Richard Lewis and Don Rickles to portray father and son in 'Daddy Dearest'". Interview with Greg Braxton, www.latimes.com. August 30, 1993.

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Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

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Funny, Clothes, 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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Different, Lasts, Stand Alone

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

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Mean, Talking, Guy

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

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Fun, Black, Why Not

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Some people say funny things - but I say things funny.

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Funny Things, People

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

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Golf, Player, Games

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.

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Hard Times, People, Giving

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they'll laugh.

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Believe, People, Laughing

Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

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Kings, Thinking, Cells

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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

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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

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Crazy, Thinking, Years

Esquire interview, bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net.

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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

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Mean, People, Insult

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.

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Fun, Hard Times, People

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

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Success, Thinking, Think Positive

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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Kids, Controversial, Provocative

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Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

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Nice, People, Nice People

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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

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Great Day, Old Days

"What I've Learned: Don Rickles" By Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

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People, Appreciate, Lasts

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Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

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Being Yourself, Mean, Sense Of Humor

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I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.

Don Rickles

Honesty, Thinking, Who I Am

Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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"To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage, happened on the stage and I developed it from there. It started doing impressions and jokes - which I did very poorly. To this day I can't tell a joke. That sounds nuts, but it's true. I exaggerate it and it becomes a joke. Everything I've ever done I've done out on the stage and it became a performance over many many years."

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Born: May 8, 1926
Died: April 6, 2017
Occupation: Comedian
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