Don Rickles
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.Collection: Being Yourself
When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.Collection: Talking
I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.Collection: Believe
I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.Collection: Years
I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and said, "Don, get up at a party and tell a joke," I'm the worst.Collection: Party
Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.Collection: Years
In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.Collection: Hockey
I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.Collection: Mean
I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew evenÂtually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.Collection: Nice
That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I'm nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that.Collection: Sarcastic
Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.Collection: Mean
I don't get into politics. I know [Donald] Trump, but I don't follow that. That's just an aside for him when he has nothing else to say. He never involved me in any of that stuff.Collection: Stuff
Showbiz is great if you're successful.Collection: Success
When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.Collection: Fun
I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've perÂformed has been from my own head.Collection: Proud
I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke.Collection: Attitude
I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.Collection: Weakness
I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.Collection: People
Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.Collection: People