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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
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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More quotes by Don Rickles
I never went out looking for glory.
Don Rickles
Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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.
Don Rickles
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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I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix 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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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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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
Don Rickles
When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
Don Rickles
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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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
Don Rickles
It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
Don Rickles
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
Don Rickles
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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