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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.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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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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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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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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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 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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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 whole act is off the top of my head.
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