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.
ALAN KINGWhen I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
More Alan King Quotes
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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