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 KINGComedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
More Alan King Quotes
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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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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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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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