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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Television Presenter
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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 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 throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew evenÂtually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
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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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It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.
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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 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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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 would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.
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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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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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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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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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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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