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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.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
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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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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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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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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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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