And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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