And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
ALAN KINGEverything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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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 was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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