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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. 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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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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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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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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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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'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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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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