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.
ALAN KING
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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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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 didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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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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Villains 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.
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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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