Alan King
Alan King
Alan Kingwas an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of movies and television shows. King wrote several books, produced films, and appeared in plays. In later years, he helped many philanthropic causes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 December 1927
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up.
It's interesting to see Salisbury High School at over 1,000 students, ... It's good to see Salisbury at that level.
It was nice to see Chocolate outriding the Flat jockey.
I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.
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 always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.
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.
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.
You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'