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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
Don Rickles
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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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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.
Don Rickles
Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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'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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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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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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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 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 you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
Don Rickles
You've got to be able to sell yourself.
Don Rickles
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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