If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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 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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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My lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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