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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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They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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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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I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.
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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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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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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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 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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