And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
ALAN KINGA summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
More Alan King Quotes
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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 mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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