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" After over 50 years of headlining, I've been received very beautifully. But 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 OK. "

Don Rickles

Over

Say

Years

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" I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried. "

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Navy

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" I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid. "

" I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate. "

" When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right when I called somebody a dummy or a yo-yo. Then they realized I was different. "

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Struggle

Comedy

" So, I'm on the satellite every Sunday, no matter where we are, with the Rams. Turn on the satellite; got to watch the Rams. "

" Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine. "

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Will

King

" I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.' "

" 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

Personality

Habit

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

" I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy. "

" I was a mother's boy. "

Don Rickles

Mother

Boy

" My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances. "

" 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 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. "

" I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me. "

Don Rickles

Care

Road

" 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 of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities. "

Don Rickles

Always

Sitting

" My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn't concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I'm not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king. "

" When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!' "

" 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?' "

" Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood. "

" 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. "

" I've never gone to comedy clubs. "

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

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

" I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head. "

" Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest. "