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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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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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 was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew evenÂtually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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 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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, Hey, when do the broads come on? I got good at saying, Relax. Clear your skin up first. They called me the insult guy, but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.
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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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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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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 don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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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.
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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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