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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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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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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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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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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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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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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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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