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It takes many years to be a great comedian.

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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
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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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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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 first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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 went out looking for glory.
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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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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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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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Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.
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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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