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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
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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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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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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 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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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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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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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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