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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
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Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
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I never went out looking for glory.
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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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 never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, Hey, when do the broads come on? I got good at saying, Relax. Clear your skin up first. They called me the insult guy, but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.
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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 whole act is off the top of my head.
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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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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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I always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.
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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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