You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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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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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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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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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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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