I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
ALAN KINGMy brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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