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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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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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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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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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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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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