I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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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 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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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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