I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
ALAN KINGVillains 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.
More Alan King Quotes
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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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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I was a high school throw-out.
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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 think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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