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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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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'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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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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