You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
ALAN KINGWhen I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
More Alan King Quotes
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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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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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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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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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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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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