Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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More Alan King Quotes
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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 won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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