I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
ALAN KINGEating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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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.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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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.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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My lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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