My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
ALAN KINGComedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
More Alan King Quotes
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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