Don Rickles
Don Rickles
Donald Jay "Don" Ricklesis an American stand-up comedian and actor. Best known as an insult comic, he is also an actor, playing both comedic and dramatic roles on film. He received widespread exposure as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Show with David Letterman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth8 May 1926
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm pleased to have been chosen by Coach G. and the team. I know they'll do me proud, ... If not, I'm going to invite them to leave Tucson and come to one of my Las Vegas shows, and then make them sit outside in the desert and let them watch their skates melt.
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He had a style that nobody else had, and I think when you're separate from the rest, it makes you kind of special.
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Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
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Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.
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Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.
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Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.
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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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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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I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.
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Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
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I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.
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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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I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.