My lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
ALAN KINGI won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
More Alan King Quotes
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I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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