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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
Donald Jay Rickles
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Donald J. Rickles
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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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I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.
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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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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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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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