When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
ALAN KINGMy father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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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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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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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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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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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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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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I was a high school throw-out.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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