That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
ALAN KINGThere’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
More Alan King Quotes
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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.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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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 just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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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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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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