I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
ALAN KINGYou know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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 won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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 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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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 had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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