Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
ALAN KINGEverything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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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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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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