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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
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
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Television Presenter
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
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I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
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I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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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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Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.
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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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In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.
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