As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
ALAN KINGWe 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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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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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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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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 was a high school throw-out.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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