And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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 won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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