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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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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To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
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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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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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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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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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