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Don Rickles

Don Rickles

stand-up comedian, actor, television presenter, singer, dancer, voice actor, comedian, television actor, film actor

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1926  – 2017

Donald Jay Rickles was an American actor and stand-up comedian known primarily for his insult comedy. His film roles include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Enter Laughing (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), and Casino (1995). From 1976 to 1978, Rickles had a two-season starring role in the NBC television sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey, having previously starred in two eponymous half-hour programs, an ABC variety series titled The Don Rickles Show (1968) and a CBS sitcom identically titled The Don Rickles Show (1972). A veteran headline performer at Las Vegas hotel-casinos and peripheral member of the Rat Pack via friendship with Frank Sinatra, Rickles received widespread exposure as a frequent guest on talk and variety shows, including The Dean Martin Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and The Late Show with David Letterman, and voiced Mr. Potato Head in the first three films of the Toy Story franchise (1995–2010). He won a Primetime Emmy Award for the 2006 documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project. In 2014, he was honored by fellow comedians in a show at the Apollo Theater, which was taped and released on Spike TV titled Don Rickles: One Night Only.

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You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

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Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

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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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You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

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I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.

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

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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 did a few movies, but the word 'star'... I cannot compare to a star like Clint Eastwood. I used to call Clint 'Larry Dickman' when he would come to my show; then, he started using the name when he would go under cover in a 'Dirty Harry' movie. That's why he's a movie star... he's so creative.

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

Don Rickles

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Don Rickles

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

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I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

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

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If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

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Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

Don Rickles

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

Don Rickles

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Don Rickles

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

Don Rickles

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?'

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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.

Don Rickles

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

Don Rickles

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Don Rickles