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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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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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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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