You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my… — Don Rickles Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
One thing a comedian does, when you step on the stage, you're selling yourself, and certainly I don't think the whole world… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
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… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
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… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
