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.
ALAN KINGI didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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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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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is 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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