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Quotes By Alan King

Right when I started in show… Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe’s State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, ‘That’s who I want to be; that’s what I want to be.’

Alan King
Idol Kid State

My wife is a very attractive woman, and she’s always worried about her diet. But she doesn’t pay attention to me, and I don’t pay attention to her. She’s a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

Alan King
DietCrazy Woman

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 Story Words

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Alan King
Performing Standing Takes

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.

Alan King
Anyone Living Stories

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

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GoodMother Until

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 College Cut

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

Alan King
FunnyAlive Current

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

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Armor Eat Suits

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

Alan King
Mother Room Saw

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
Cook Hours Mother

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Alan King
FreedomConfidence TV

As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.

Alan King
Father Parent

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

Alan King
Books Comic Kid

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

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GreatHumorStop
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