That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
ALAN KINGI didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
More Alan King Quotes
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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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 was a high school throw-out.
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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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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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