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Don Rickles Biography

Donald Jay Rickles (May 8, 1926 – April 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor and author. He became well known as an insult comic. His prominent film roles included Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) with Clark Gable and Kelly's Heroes (1970) with Clint Eastwood, and beginning in 1976 he enjoyed a two-year run starring in the NBC television sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey.

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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend. . . well, a legend, anyhow.

Talking, Legends, Wells, Talk, George

I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

Blanket, Day, Games, Needs, Watch, Watches

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Different, Lasts, Please, Stand, Stand Alone

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Attitude, Humor, Personality, Study

I don't do impressions.

Impression, Impressions

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.

Fun, Given, Insult, People, Title, Titles

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

Black, Fun, Make, Why Not, Yeah

Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.

Enjoyed, Frank, Humor, Mean, Reason

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.

Father, Man, Men, Mother, Room, Show

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.

Audience, Beginning, Night, People, Thinking

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.

Being Yourself, Death, Hiding, Humor, Mean, Sense Of Humor

I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

Belt, Belts, Mean, Opinion

I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.

Fix, Goes On, Know, Light, Midnight

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

Became, Outgoing, Protect, Shy, Shyness

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

Give, Giving, Ideas, Stand, Toast, Toasts

I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and said, 'Don, get up at a party and tell a joke', I'm the worst.

Believe, Bucks, Joke, Party, Thousand

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

Dollar, King, Kings, Phones, Thinking, Years

Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

People, Appreciate, Legends, Call, Legend

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

Alone, Come, Crazy, Know, Thinking, Years

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Bar, Bars, Eddie, Empires, State, Trying

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