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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.
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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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They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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