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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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Almost
Within
Anything
Reason
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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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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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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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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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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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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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, Hey, when do the broads come on? I got good at saying, Relax. Clear your skin up first. They called me the insult guy, but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.
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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.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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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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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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I never went out looking for glory.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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