The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
ALAN KINGMy son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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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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