My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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