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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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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 have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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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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They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
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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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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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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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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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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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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 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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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