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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Television Presenter
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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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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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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I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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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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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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