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• You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

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• You know what’s funny to me? Attitude.

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• When I’m onstage, I’m acting.

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• Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

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• To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

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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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• The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

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• Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

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• Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

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• Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

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• It takes many years to be a great comedian.

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• In our day we went from – we went into saloons. We couldn’t cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you’re a major movie star, you know.

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• I’d like to think my performance is today. I never try to – it’s so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

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• I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I’d better write a book.

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• I was a mother’s boy.

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• I told jokes badly.

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• I still have drive, but everything is relative.

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• I never went out looking for glory.

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• I mean, in my – and I’m not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little – I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

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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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Birth:	8th May, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Donald Jay "Don" Rickles was born in Queens, New York City, New York. He is an American stand-up comedian and actor. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Show with David Letterman, he has also acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic. He also appeared in the popular Beach Party film series. In 1968, Rickles released a live comedy album, Hello, Dummy!

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