American - Comedian | May 8, 1926 - April 6, 2017
I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.
Don Rickles
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Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going to react. But I could tell the minute I saw him that he was going to be in my corner.
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I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.
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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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After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.
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Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.
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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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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
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Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.
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When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.
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I don't like to compare myself with anybody.
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Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.
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