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?
Don RicklesEverything 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 RicklesWho am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.
Don RicklesOnce in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
Don Rickles