Quotes by Alan King - Page 2

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 society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
Alan King / Actor
Society
Ability
Comedy
Fun
House
Mirrors
Reflection
Standards
Society Mirror Reflection
Behaves
Distorted
Create
Set
Watch
Mirror
Styles
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
Alan King / Actor
Humor
Certain
Crime
Hypochondriac
Jew
Stage
Joke
Intractable
Miser
Objectively
Refer
Speaking
Stereotypical
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Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.
Alan King / Actor
Comedian
Different Approach
Refreshing
Time Age Great
Formula
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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 / Actor
Food
Fun
Sex
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I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.
Alan King / Actor
Marriage
Caring
Long
Mind
Not Caring
Self Defense
Used
Wife
Eat
Month
Nights
Cook
Chops
Her
Over
Lamb
Learned
Row
She
Took
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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.
Alan King / Actor
Birthday
Kids
New Year
Father
Years
Time Great Always
Celebrating
Joke
Great Thing
Trees
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I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.
Alan King / Actor
Artistic
Creative
Creative People
Excitement
Passion
Wit
Zest
Life Men Great
Carry
Stay
Generally
Speaking
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Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'
Alan King / Actor
Catholic
Deathbed
Declaring
Elderly
Jew
Living
Why
After
Answered
Did
Asked
Astonished
Convert
Hear
Priest
Relatives
Sent
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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.
Alan King / Actor
Fun
Hate
Laughing
Sympathetic
Two Weeks
Years
Love Movies Hate
Weeks
Villains
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. 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.
Alan King / Actor
Running
Morning
Apples
Cloudy
Drank
Juice
Nurse
Said
Little
Like
Had
Me
After
Get
Apple
Them
Through
Run
Every
Even
Gave
Held
Her
Hospital
One Morning
Poured
Specimen
Took
Tube
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