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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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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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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'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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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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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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 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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I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.
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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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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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