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.
ALAN KINGLarry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
More Alan King Quotes
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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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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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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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 was a high school throw-out.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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