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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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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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 never went out looking for glory.
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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 was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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 think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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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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