Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
ALAN KINGYou do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
More Alan King Quotes
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I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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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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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 made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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