One 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.
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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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 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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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