My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
ALAN KINGBut in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
More Alan King Quotes
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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I was a high school throw-out.
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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 won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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My 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.”
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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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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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