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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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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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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My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.
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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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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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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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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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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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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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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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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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