And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
ALAN KINGComedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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I was a high school throw-out.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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The other day my house caught fire.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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