Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
ALAN KINGI don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
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One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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