Don Rickles Quotes - Page 4

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

  Don Rickles

  Kings, Kids, Comedian

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

  Don Rickles

  Energy, Excitement, Audience

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.

  Don Rickles

  Night, Years, Ideas

  Source: adambulger.blogspot.com

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• It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

  Don Rickles

  East, Gigs, Break

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

  Don Rickles

  Thinking, People, Young

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• We show a lot of film [with Regis Philbin] from my career which is most enjoyable. I enjoy watching it.

  Don Rickles

  Careers, Film, Enjoy

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

  Don Rickles

  Acting

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• I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian, but I was never very successful because I did it poorly. So I started to talk to the audience and started talking about the atmosphere around me and started to become angry, not in a mean-spirited way, but in a fun way - and my attitude developed from there.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Attitude, Mean

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• What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Real, Mean

  "Don Rickles (1926 - 2017)". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 5, 2017.

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• I still have drive, but everything is relative.

  Don Rickles

  Stills, Relative

  "Q&A: RICHARD LEWIS AND DON RICKLES: TV's Newest Odd Couple: Mr. Warmth and Mr. Worry may seem an unlikely pair - at first - to portray father and son in Fox's 'Daddy Dearest'". Interview with Greg Braxton, articles.latimes.com. August 30, 1993.

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• When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.

  Don Rickles

  Running, Night, Thinking

  "Don Rickles (1926 - 2017)". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 5, 2017.

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• You've got to be able to sell yourself.

  Don Rickles

  Able, Sells

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• Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.

  Don Rickles

  Sex, Tired, Age

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

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

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Kids, Guy

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• It takes many years to be a great comedian.

  Don Rickles

  Years, Comedian

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

  Don Rickles

  Whole

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• When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

  Don Rickles

  Wise, Vegas, Guy

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• I always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.

  Don Rickles

  Girl, Fun, Guy

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• So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.

  Don Rickles

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Source: www.maxim.com

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• Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

  Don Rickles

  Uncles, Latin, Names

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• It's tough having the last name Rickles. Luckily, my kids handled it great.

  Don Rickles

  Kids, Names, Lasts

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

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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.

  Don Rickles

  Guy, Comedian, Trying

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• I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

  Don Rickles

  Vegas, Years, Dimes

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• My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive.

  Don Rickles

  Brain, Thank God, Alive

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.

  Don Rickles

  Father, Men, Lots Of Friends

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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