You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
ALAN KINGEd Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
More Alan King Quotes
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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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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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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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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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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I was a high school throw-out.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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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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