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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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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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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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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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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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