Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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