Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
ALAN KINGI didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
More Alan King Quotes
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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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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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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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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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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