The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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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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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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Milton 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.
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