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.
ALAN KING
Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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