But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
ALAN KINGIf you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
More Alan King Quotes
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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 father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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I was a high school throw-out.
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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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