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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
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Television Presenter
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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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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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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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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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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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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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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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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My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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