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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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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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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.
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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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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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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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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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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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 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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