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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Queens
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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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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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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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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 don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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 do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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 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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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