I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
ALAN KINGMarriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
More Alan King Quotes
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I was a high school throw-out.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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