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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.

Don Rickles

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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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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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I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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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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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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