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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
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
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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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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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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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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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