I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
ALAN KINGOne thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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The other day my house caught fire.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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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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