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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Queens
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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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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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
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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 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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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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 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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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