Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
ALAN KINGI always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
More Alan King Quotes
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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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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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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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 a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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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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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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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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