Don Rickles Quotes

Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.

Don Rickles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 8, 1926 - April 6, 2017

Topics

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It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Jim Hightower

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I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Jim James

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By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

Jeff Giles

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You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Steve Earle

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When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

Steven Wright

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When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

Tom Cruise

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Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

Roelof Botha

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I can't take credit for the success of my songs.

Mohit Chauhan

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I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Luis Miguel

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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Lou Holtz

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'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

Colson Whitehead

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I have never been attracted by younger men.

Brigitte Macron

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