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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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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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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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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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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.
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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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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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