That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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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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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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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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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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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