All Alan King Quotes
- The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage. Ability
- The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life. Dictator
- Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch… Ability
- I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love… Ball
- Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it… Alongside
- That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was… All
- 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… All
- Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn. Absorb
- Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny. David
- As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself. Becomes
- Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context. Context
- If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. Alive
- My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating. Bed
- When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. Books
- You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. Bran
- You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine. Except
- As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami… Better