If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
ALAN KINGI was a high school throw-out.
More Alan King Quotes
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The other day my house caught fire.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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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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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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 just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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