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.
ALAN KINGWhen 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.
More Alan King Quotes
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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