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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
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Queens
New York
Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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More quotes by Don Rickles
If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
Don Rickles
I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.
Don Rickles
The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
Don Rickles
I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
Don Rickles
I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
Don Rickles
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
Don Rickles
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
Don Rickles
You've got to be able to sell yourself.
Don Rickles
You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
Don Rickles
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
Don Rickles
I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
Don Rickles
Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
Don Rickles
Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
Don Rickles
