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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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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 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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My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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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 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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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
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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 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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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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I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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