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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Queens
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I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.
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Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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Who 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.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.
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I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
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I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.
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My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.
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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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