There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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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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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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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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 world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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