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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

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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
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I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.
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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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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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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 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'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 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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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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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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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 can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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