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.
ALAN KINGModesty is not one of my virtues.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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