Don Rickles Quotes

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

I'm set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it's easy.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

I got a call from my manager saying, 'Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.' And I'm a comic - big fan of all he's done. He was pitching me 'Caraoke Showdown', and I was just excited about it.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I'll be doing stand-up for the rest of my life. The opportunities that it grants you can't be denied. Stand-up is both the hardest thing I do and the thing I enjoy most.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

My whole initial goal was to be a comedian, so it's not like I chose to do a TV show out of nowhere. It's kind of always been goal to do a TV show.

I've often been told that if music doesn't work out I could be a comedian.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

I knew when I got out of high school that I was going to be a stand-up comic.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I've got to follow in the footsteps of Sacha Baron Cohen and do a prank show, or a film with real elements to it.

I'm so lucky that I found comedy and that I get to do it for a living.

Before stand-up, I'm not sure I even had a point of view.