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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.
Don Rickles
Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
Don Rickles
My whole act is off the top of my head.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
Don Rickles
The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
Don Rickles
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
Don Rickles
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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 have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
Don Rickles
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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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Don Rickles
It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
