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" Honestly, I didn't realize it - all of a sudden, I was 90. The years skipped by quickly. When it happened, I said, 'Where did the time go?' "

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" Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib. "

" The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business. "

" 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. "

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

" An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth. "

" I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning. "

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

" I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate. "

" 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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" I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore. "

" When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight. "

" Funny is funny. "

" Everything I've performed has been from my own head. "

" 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. "

" It's tough having the last name 'Rickles.' Luckily, my kids handled it great. "

" 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. "

" My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head. "

" 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!' "

" I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage. "

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

" I told jokes badly. "

" Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera. "

" Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans. "

" I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner. "

" I still have drive, but everything is relative. "

" 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. "

" Girls were scared of me because I can be loud. Barbara, my wife of 51 years, is very low-key. She was my picture agent's secretary. "

" You've got to be able to sell yourself. "

" Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive. "