Don Rickles Quotes

There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

I don't want to be difficult personally. On stage is the right place for a diva.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

I never take counsel of my fears.

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me, and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

A leader with no doubts leads badly.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.