We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
ALAN KINGI’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.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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