There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
ALAN KINGMilton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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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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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 just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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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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 made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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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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