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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Donald Jay Rickles
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Donald Rickles
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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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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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I always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.
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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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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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When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.
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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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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 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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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 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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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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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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