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. 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 my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym. Don Rickles gym jokes my-own 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
