My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
ALAN KINGI had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
More Alan King Quotes
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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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 just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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