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I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Don Rickles

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.

Don Rickles

Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint Eastwood.' Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

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

I told jokes badly.

Don Rickles

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

Don Rickles

I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.

Don Rickles

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.

Don Rickles

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

Don Rickles

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Don Rickles

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Don Rickles

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

I did a few movies, but the word 'star'... I cannot compare to a star like Clint Eastwood. I used to call Clint 'Larry Dickman' when he would come to my show; then, he started using the name when he would go under cover in a 'Dirty Harry' movie. That's why he's a movie star... he's so creative.

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

Don Rickles

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.

Don Rickles

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.

Don Rickles

I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.

Don Rickles

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.

Don Rickles

When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right when I called somebody a dummy or a yo-yo. Then they realized I was different.

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

Don Rickles

So, I'm on the satellite every Sunday, no matter where we are, with the Rams. Turn on the satellite; got to watch the Rams.

Don Rickles

I was a mother's boy.

Don Rickles

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.

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