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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones. — Don Rickles

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling. — Don Rickles

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic. — Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage. — Don Rickles

I've never gone to comedy clubs. — Don Rickles

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

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. — Don Rickles

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

Showbiz is great if you're successful. — Don Rickles

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

Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired. — Don Rickles

It takes many years to be a great comedian. — Don Rickles

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

My whole act is off the top of my head. — Don Rickles

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. — Don Rickles

I never went out looking for glory. — Don Rickles

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now. — Don Rickles

It's tough having the last name Rickles. Luckily, my kids handled it great. — Don Rickles

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness. — Don Rickles

My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world. — 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

The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor. — Don Rickles

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas. — Don Rickles

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest. — Don Rickles

Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans. — Don Rickles

I've never had a written script. — Don Rickles

My mother was a Jewish General Patton. — Don Rickles

Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive. — Don Rickles

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

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. — Don Rickles

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera. — Don Rickles

Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it. — Don Rickles

I don't like to compare myself with anybody. — Don Rickles

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

I do situations and make fun of authority and life. — Don Rickles

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God. — Don Rickles

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny. — 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 was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child. — Don Rickles

I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket. — 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

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. — Don Rickles

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side. — Don Rickles

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon. — Marc Maron

I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke. — Don Rickles

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled. — Don Rickles

You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up. — Don Rickles

When I'm onstage, I'm acting. — Don Rickles

I never go see a comic. The only one I'd ever really want to see is Don Rickles. He might be 80 years old, but he blows everyone out of the water. — Andrew Dice Clay

My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head. — Don Rickles

I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it. — Don Rickles

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. — Don Rickles

It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that. — Don Rickles

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate. — Don Rickles

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. — Don Rickles

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh. — Don Rickles

I didn't get married until I was 38. — Don Rickles

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

I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym. — Don Rickles

I write my own tweets. — Don Rickles

Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics. — Don Rickles

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment. — Don Rickles

I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat. — Don Rickles

I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit. — Don Rickles

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood. — Don Rickles

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny. — Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great. — Don Rickles

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper. — Don Rickles

I still have drive, but everything is relative. — Don Rickles

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience. — Louie Anderson

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it. — Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one. — Don Rickles

I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt. — Don Rickles

I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day. — Don Rickles

You know what's funny to me? Attitude. — 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

I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun. — Don Rickles

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying. — Don Rickles

My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss. — Don Rickles

When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend ... well, a legend, anyhow. — Don Rickles

You've got to be able to sell yourself. — Don Rickles

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. — Don Rickles

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts. — Don Rickles

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder? — Don Rickles

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. — Don Rickles

I would make sweet love to Don Rickles. — Jim Gaffigan

I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke. — Don Rickles

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it. — Don Rickles

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed. — Don Rickles

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket. — Don Rickles

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

I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner. — Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance. — Don Rickles

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances. — Don Rickles

Sinatra was somebody special. — Don Rickles

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid. — Don Rickles

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last. — Don Rickles

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it. — 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