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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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