Don Rickles quotes

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. (Don Rickles)
They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
Don Rickles
Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
Don Rickles
I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
Don Rickles
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
Don Rickles
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Don Rickles
No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.
Don Rickles
I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
Don Rickles
When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Don Rickles
Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
Don Rickles
Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black. (Don Rickles)
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.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.
Don Rickles
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
Don Rickles
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Don Rickles
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
Don Rickles
Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
Don Rickles
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
Don Rickles
I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny. (Don Rickles)
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.
Don Rickles
I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
Don Rickles
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
Don Rickles
Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
Don Rickles