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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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Stand-Up Comedian
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
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More quotes by Don Rickles
People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
Don Rickles
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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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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.
Don Rickles
I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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.
Don Rickles
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.
Don Rickles
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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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.
Don Rickles
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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