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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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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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I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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