Don Rickles Quotes

Sex Is Great, But When You Get To Be My Age, You've Got To Pace It A Little Bit. Otherwise You Get Tired.

I Grew Up In An Orthodox Family, As I Grew Older, I Became Conservative And That's How It Ended Up. But I've Developed That Jewish Feel To My Act From My Surroundings And My Family.

Well, I Call Myself An Actor. I Always Wanted To Be One.

I Would Describe Myself As A Guy That's Very Normal But Has The Tendency To Rib People, But Never In A Mean-spirited Way.

People Think Being In Your Seventies Means Sitting Around In A Chair With A Blanket Over Your Legs, Drooling.

I Was A Mother's Boy.

I Never Went Out Looking For Glory.

I've Never Been Mean-spirited, In My Opinion. I Never Did Anything Below The Belt.

I Don't Do Impressions.

My Father When Walked Into A Room, You Could Tell That Everybody Loved Him. They Really Did. He Was Quite A Man. My Mother Was More Into The Show Biz Atmosphere Than He Was.

Hell, Do I Remember The First Joke? I Was Never A Jokester.

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.