We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
ALAN KINGI just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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 had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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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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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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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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