Don Rickles Quotes

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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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Down, Years, Been, Famous

An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.

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King, Use, Mr, Warmth

I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.

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Think, Some, Still, Monday Morning

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

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Funny, Stevie Wonder, Picks, Stevie

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.

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Vegas, Pot, Las Vegas, Boiling

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

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Love, Vegas, Melting Pot, Pot

Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

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Service, Want, Club, Room Service

The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.

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Career, Reagan, Mr, Highlight

The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.

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Thought, Some, Bells, Clothing

I don't walk into a dinner party and say, 'You're an idiot; give me my coat.'

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Idiot, Give, Say, Dinner Party

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

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Start, New, Always, Uptight

Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.

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Why, Like, Come, Rings

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

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Like, Elizabeth, Taylor, Empire State

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

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Situation, Tell, Cannot, Joke

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

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Father, Insurance, Had, Dime

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

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Black, Why, Yeah, Blacks

I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.

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Over, Broke, Mine, Blacks

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

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Hockey, New, Will, Cement

I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

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Work, Rest, Over, Prima

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?

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Basket, Eastwood, Clint, MGM

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

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Man, Johnny Carson, Terribly, Johnny

Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.

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My Life, Big, Very, Johnny

Johnny Carson was king of the kings, in my opinion.

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King, In My Opinion, Johnny

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.

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I Think, Maintain, Got, Saloon

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

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Study, Average, Before, Realizing

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.

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Life, Tell, Our, Selves

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

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Never, Know, Struggling, End Of The Tunnel

I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.

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Soul, Door, Frank, Drank

At 90, I'm still working a couple of dates a month. My mind is very sharp on the stage, so why not? This may sound corny, but I do it because people - young and old - still come to see me, and they're very enthusiastic about my work. They treat me like the Godfather.

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Treat, Very, Couple, Sharp

You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they'll laugh.

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Believe, Doing, Got, Wholeheartedly

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