I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and said, "Don, get up at a party and tell a joke," I'm the worst.
Don RicklesI knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.
Don RicklesSex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.
Don RicklesThe transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
Don RicklesWhen someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.
Don Rickles