If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
ALAN KINGComedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
More Alan King Quotes
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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