For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
ALAN KINGLarry 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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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