An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
ALAN KINGThe ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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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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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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