The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
ALAN KINGMy mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
More Alan King Quotes
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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 just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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