The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
ALAN KINGMilton 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.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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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 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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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