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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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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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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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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 takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.
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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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