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.
ALAN KINGMy brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
More Alan King Quotes
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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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Banks 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?
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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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