Alan King Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”
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“Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.”
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“When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.”
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“I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.”
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“I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.”
-- Alan KingSource : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.
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“I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.”
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“I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.”
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“I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.”
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“Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.”
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“My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.”
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“My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.”
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“One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'”
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“The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.”
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“The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.”
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“Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.”
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“I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.”
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“Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.”
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“That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.”
-- Alan KingSource : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 13, 2009.
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“My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'”
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“My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.”
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“Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.”
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“And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.”
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“A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!”
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“If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.”
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“I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.”
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“When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.”
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“It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.”
-- Alan King
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