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 KINGIt’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.
More Alan King Quotes
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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