Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
ALAN KINGWhen I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
More Alan King Quotes
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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 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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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 mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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