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.
ALAN KINGIt’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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 do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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