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?
ALAN KINGBut in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
More Alan King Quotes
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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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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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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’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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