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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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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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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.
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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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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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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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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 if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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 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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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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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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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 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 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 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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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