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.
ALAN KINGOne 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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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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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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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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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