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.
ALAN KINGVillains 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.
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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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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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 want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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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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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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