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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
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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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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'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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