I was a high school throw-out.
ALAN KINGThe ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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 more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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