I was a high school throw-out.
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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The other day my house caught fire.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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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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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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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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