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 KINGLet’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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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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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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