I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
ALAN KINGYou want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
More Alan King Quotes
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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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 didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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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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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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