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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
Don J. Rickles
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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, Hey, when do the broads come on? I got good at saying, Relax. Clear your skin up first. They called me the insult guy, but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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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's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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