There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
ALAN KINGI was a high school throw-out.
More Alan King Quotes
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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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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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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