I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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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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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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When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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