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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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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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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept 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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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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 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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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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 can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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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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