For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
ALAN KINGBut in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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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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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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