I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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.
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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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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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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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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