Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
ALAN KINGNow that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
More Alan King Quotes
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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