They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun. — 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
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're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying. — Don Rickles Copy Share 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… — 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
Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things.… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid. — 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
