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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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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
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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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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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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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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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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 sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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