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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
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Queens
New York
Donald Jay Rickles
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Donald J. Rickles
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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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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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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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The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
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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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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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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 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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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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 throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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