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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
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Queens
New York
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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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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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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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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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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 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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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 nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
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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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