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.
ALAN KINGI was a high school throw-out.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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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 world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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