The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
ALAN KINGThe world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
ALAN KINGThere’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
ALAN KINGWhen 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.
ALAN KINGLarry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
ALAN KINGI made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
ALAN KINGWhen I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
ALAN KINGWe get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
ALAN KINGThe ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
ALAN KINGIt’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 KINGIf you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KINGEd Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
ALAN KINGWe watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
ALAN KINGYou want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
ALAN KINGI always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
ALAN KINGThere’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
ALAN KINGEverything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
ALAN KING