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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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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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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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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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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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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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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 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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Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.
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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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