Don Rickles
Don Rickles
Donald Jay "Don" Ricklesis an American stand-up comedian and actor. Best known as an insult comic, he is also an actor, playing both comedic and dramatic roles on film. He received widespread exposure as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Show with David Letterman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth8 May 1926
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
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I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.
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Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.
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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.
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An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.
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I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day.
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Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.
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Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.
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I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.
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Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
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The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.