Alan King Quotes

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• My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails. Brother
• My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.' All
• My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews. Ate
• My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living. Anyone
• One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' Dinner
• The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage. Ability
• The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life. Dictator
• Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch… Ability
• I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love… Ball
• Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it… Alongside
• That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was… All
• When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my… All
• Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn. Absorb
• Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny. David
• As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself. Becomes
• Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context. Context
• If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. Alive
• My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating. Bed
• When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. Books
• You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. Bran

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