It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
ALAN KINGEating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
More Alan King Quotes
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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