I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
ALAN KINGEating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
More Alan King Quotes
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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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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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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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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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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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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