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.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the U.S., but I didn't click with anyone.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Everyone tried their best to get that all-important 1-0. It's going to be very difficult now, but we've got a chance.

We tried to make it as close as we could to how it started in 1974.