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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
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Queens
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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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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'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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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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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 would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.
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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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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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