Quote

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

Don Rickles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
Best
Punch
Throw
Otherwise

More quotes by Don Rickles

Image
When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
Don Rickles
Image
I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
Don Rickles
Image
When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Don Rickles
Image
If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
Don Rickles
Image
My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.
Don Rickles
Image
It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.
Don Rickles
Image
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
Image
I always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.
Don Rickles
Image
I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.
Don Rickles
Image
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.
Don Rickles
Image
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
Image
People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
Don Rickles
Image
You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
Don Rickles
Image
Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
Don Rickles
Image
My whole act is off the top of my head.
Don Rickles
Image
I never went out looking for glory.
Don Rickles
Image
It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
Don Rickles
Image
Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
Don Rickles
Image
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Don Rickles
Image
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
Don Rickles