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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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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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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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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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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 always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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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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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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