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Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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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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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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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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 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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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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 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 don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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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 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 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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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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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