I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
ALAN KINGBut in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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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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