When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
ALAN KINGIf you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
More Alan King Quotes
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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