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.
ALAN KINGBut in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
More Alan King Quotes
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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