Don Rickles People Quotations

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

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

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.

Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.

I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

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

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.