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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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 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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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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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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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 you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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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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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 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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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