We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
ALAN KINGI didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
More Alan King Quotes
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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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.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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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.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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.
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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.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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