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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
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Queens
New York
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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 can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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