You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
ALAN KINGYou know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
ALAN KINGEverything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
ALAN KINGBut in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
ALAN KINGEd Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
ALAN KINGAs life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
ALAN KINGI didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
ALAN KINGThen, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
ALAN KINGI’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.
ALAN KINGWe watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
ALAN KINGAs a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
ALAN KINGMy father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
ALAN KINGThe ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
ALAN KINGFor me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
ALAN KINGI made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
ALAN KINGOne thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
ALAN KINGAnd humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
ALAN KING