My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
ALAN KINGI think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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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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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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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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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 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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