I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
ALAN KINGIf you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
More Alan King Quotes
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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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