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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.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Television Presenter
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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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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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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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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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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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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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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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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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'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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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 stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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