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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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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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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 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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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