Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
ALAN KINGI’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.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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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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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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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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