That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
ALAN KINGI made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
More Alan King Quotes
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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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 keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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