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
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.
I was a high school throw-out.
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 is thickly sliced.
It was nice to see Chocolate outriding the Flat jockey.
Our growth this year is what we expected,
Infrastructures that are too small for the number of students are not emphasized as much when you have block scheduling, because students only have to change classes about three times, as opposed to six,
I was worried about the ground, and while I thought it was quicker than ideal, there was no jar.
Once they make their commitment, they have to stay with that commitment, ... They have to live with that decision.
I don't think it's any secret. We can't continue to do business as we're currently doing it.
The way Blue Gene works its magic is the multiplicity of networks built into the back end. With 65,000 processors, an intelligent network was needed to work around system failures, so there was a lot of effort directed toward making this a reliable system as well as a fast and efficient one.
Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up.
As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.