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I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Donald Jay Rickles
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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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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 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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I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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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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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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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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