The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
ALAN KINGVillains 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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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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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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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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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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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is 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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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