We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
ALAN KINGMy lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
More Alan King Quotes
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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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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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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 just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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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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