Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
ALAN KINGIt’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
More Alan King Quotes
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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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