You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
ALAN KINGAn old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
More Alan King Quotes
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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.
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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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 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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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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