My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
ALAN KINGLet’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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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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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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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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