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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
Actor
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
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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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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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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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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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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 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've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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