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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.
Don Rickles
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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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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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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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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I never went out looking for glory.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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 old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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