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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.
Don Rickles
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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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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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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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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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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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In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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