My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
ALAN KINGMy son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
ALAN KINGMy father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
ALAN KINGMilton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
ALAN KINGI think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
ALAN KINGI won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
ALAN KINGMarriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
ALAN KINGWe get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
ALAN KINGLarry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was 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 KINGAnd humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
ALAN KINGMy favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
ALAN KINGMy mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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.
ALAN KINGI just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
ALAN KINGI had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
ALAN KINGMy 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.
ALAN KING