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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
Donald Jay Rickles
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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'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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, Hey, when do the broads come on? I got good at saying, Relax. Clear your skin up first. They called me the insult guy, but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.
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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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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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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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I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
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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 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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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