As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
ALAN KINGBut in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all 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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I was a high school throw-out.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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