Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
ALAN KINGI won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
More Alan King Quotes
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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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 father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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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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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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