- Born November 30, 1935 · Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
- Birth name Allan Stewart Konigsberg
QUOTES:
- [in 1977] This year I’m a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?
- On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
- [asked if he liked the idea of living on on the silver screen] I’d rather live on in my apartment.
- [on films] I can’t imagine that the business should be run any other way than that the director has complete control of his films. My situation may be unique, but that doesn’t speak well for the business–it shouldn’t be unique, because the director is the one who has the vision and he’s the one who should put that vision onto film.
- Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don’t care about the films. I don’t care if they’re flushed down the toilet after I die.
- Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.
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