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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Queens
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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 enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.
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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 never went out looking for glory.
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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 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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Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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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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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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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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