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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.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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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 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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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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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 think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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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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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.
Don Rickles
