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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.
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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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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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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 old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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