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.
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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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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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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