American - Comedian | May 8, 1926 - April 6, 2017
I can get an audience screaming in Las Vegas and say, 'Barbara, that was a great show,' and she'll say, 'Would you please hurry up? We have dinner reservations at 9:30.'
Don Rickles
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Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.
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There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
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The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.
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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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Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
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Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
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The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'
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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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I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.
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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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I never went out looking for glory.
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