You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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 won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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