An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
ALAN KINGI think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
More Alan King Quotes
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I was a high school throw-out.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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