The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
ALAN KINGThat’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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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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