My lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
ALAN KINGMy favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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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 first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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