Quotes & Jokes by Don Rickles / page 3

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

I was a mother's boy.

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

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

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

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

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

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

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.

In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.

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

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

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

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