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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.
Don Rickles
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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
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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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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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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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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
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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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