We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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 just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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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 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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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