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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
Actor
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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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I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew evenÂtually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
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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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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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Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
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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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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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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
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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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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