We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is 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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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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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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’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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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