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.
ALAN KINGBanks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
More Alan King Quotes
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I was a high school throw-out.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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 always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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