Don Rickles Quotes

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

You know what’s funny to me? Attitude.

When I’m onstage, I’m acting.

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

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

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.

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

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

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

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

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

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.

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.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I’d better write a book.

I was a mother’s boy.

I told jokes badly.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

I never went out looking for glory.

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.

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.