There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
ALAN KINGWe watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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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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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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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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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