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.
ALAN KINGAs life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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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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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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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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