Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
ALAN KINGModesty is not one of my virtues.
More Alan King Quotes
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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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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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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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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