We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
ALAN KINGI had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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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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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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