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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
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I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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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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The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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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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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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