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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
Don Rickles
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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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 never went out looking for glory.
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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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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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I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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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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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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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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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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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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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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