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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
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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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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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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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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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'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.
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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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