I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
ALAN KINGI just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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