If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
ALAN KINGI don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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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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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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