Alan King Quotes - Page 2

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• Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

  Alan King

  Laughing, Calling, Firsts

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• Modesty is not one of my virtues.

  Alan King

  Modesty, Virtue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

  Alan King

  Fun, Want, Weapons

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• 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 the heavies. It's much more fun. 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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  Fun, Hate, Years

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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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  Mother, Kitchen, Rooms

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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.

  Alan King

  Mother, Cousin, Eight

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• I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

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  Practice, Carnegie, Made

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• As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

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  Father, Parent

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• 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 father talked about.

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  Father, Firsts, Oppression

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• 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 always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

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  New Year, Father, Kids

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• One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

  Alan King

  Dinner, Life Is, Restaurants

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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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  Sports, Bed, Way

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• As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

  Alan King

  Sex, Eggs, Pleasure

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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.

  Alan King

  Brother, Cutting, College

  Alan King, Chris Chase (1997). “Name Dropping”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alan King

  Holocaust, Way, Jokes

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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.

  Alan King

  Firsts, Tvs, Program

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• I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

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  Suits Of Armor, Armor, Suits

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• It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

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  Father, Comeback, Being A Father

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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, 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.

  Alan King

  Sex, Fun, Food

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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.

  Alan King

  Mother, Balls, Fluffy

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• When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

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  Morning, Dinner, Get Up

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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.

  Alan King

  Book, Stories, Stage

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• There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

  Alan King

  Believe

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