I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
ALAN KINGWe set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
More Alan King Quotes
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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?
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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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The other day my house caught fire.
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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 brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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