Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
ALAN KINGAnd humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
More Alan King Quotes
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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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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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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