I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
ALAN KINGAs a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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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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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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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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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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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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