The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
ALAN KINGIt’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
More Alan King Quotes
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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