You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
ALAN KINGWhen I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
More Alan King Quotes
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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Villains 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.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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