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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
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
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Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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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 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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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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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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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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Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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