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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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
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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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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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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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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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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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 can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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