Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
ALAN KINGSome would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
More Alan King Quotes
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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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 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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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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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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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