Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
ALAN KINGWhen I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
More Alan King Quotes
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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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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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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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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Milton 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.
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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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