My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
ALAN KINGI won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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