Alan King Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Alan King quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased comedian born on Dec 26, 1927). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 55 we have for him.
“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.”
“I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.”
“My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'”
“One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'”
“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 the heavies. It's much more fun. 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.”
“Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.”
“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.”
“Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.”
“If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.”
“My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.”
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