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 RicklesI always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
Don RicklesPolitical correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
Don RicklesWhen I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
Don Rickles