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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
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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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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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 never went out looking for glory.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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 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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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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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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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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.
Don Rickles
You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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