I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
ALAN KINGI always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
More Alan King Quotes
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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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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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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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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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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