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Don Rickles

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 8, 1926

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

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Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

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Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

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I did a picture 40 years ago with Carroll O'Connor and Telly Savalas, God rest their souls, and Clint Eastwood, called 'Kelly's Heroes,' which we filmed in Yugoslavia for six months.

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When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

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Frank Sinatra. Hey, Frank, I saw you in 'The Pride and Passion,' and I want to tell you the cannon was wonderful!

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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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I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.

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I didn't get married until I was 38.

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

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I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.

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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?'

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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.

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I still have drive, but everything is relative.

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They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

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Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.

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

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I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

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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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I'm a New Yorker, originally. I was raised in Jackson Heights. I went to P.S. 148 and then Newtown High School. If World War II didn't come, I'd still be there in school. World War II saved me.

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