I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym. Don Rickles More Quotes by Don Rickles More Quotes From Don Rickles I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality. Don Rickles unique pride mean 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 midnight light goes-on I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book. Don Rickles tired writing book In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks. Don Rickles hockey fans people 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 insecurity hurt fun I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. Don Rickles accountants mistake years Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. Don Rickles empires bars trying That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I'm nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that. Don Rickles hockey sarcastic people Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason. Don Rickles frank reason mean The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now. Don Rickles old-days great-day 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. Don Rickles titles fun people The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island. Don Rickles melting vegas islands I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate. Don Rickles car couple dog 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 crazy dying fun Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel. Don Rickles light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel tunnels struggle I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people. Don Rickles good-people gone people I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness. Don Rickles shyness outgoing shy It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing. Don Rickles gigs east break I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've performed has been from my own head. Don Rickles has-beens my-own proud 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. Don Rickles stage made people
