“Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint E…” — Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

I've never had a written script.

I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.