If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
ALAN KINGThat’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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 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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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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