Facts about Fred Allen

Occup.	Comedian
From	USA
Born	May 31, 1894
Died	March 17, 1956
Aged	61 years

Summary

Fred Allen was a famous Comedian from USA, who lived between May 31, 1894 and March 17, 1956. He/she became 61 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 46 quotes who is written / told by Fred, under the main topics: Business - Funny - Humor - Graduation.

46 Famous quotes by Fred Allen

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart"

Fred Allen

"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"

Fred Allen

"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion"

Fred Allen

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me"

Fred Allen

"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making"

Fred Allen

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare"

Fred Allen

"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done"

Fred Allen

"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you"

Fred Allen

"California is a great place to live if you're an orange"

Fred Allen

"The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi"

Fred Allen

"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race"

Fred Allen

"I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap"

Fred Allen

"An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt"

Fred Allen

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary"

Fred Allen

"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement"

Fred Allen

"Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs"

Fred Allen

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there"

Fred Allen

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars"

Fred Allen

"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars"

Fred Allen

"A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done"

Fred Allen

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized"

Fred Allen

"Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great"

Fred Allen

"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted"

Fred Allen

"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done"

Fred Allen

"Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year"

Fred Allen

"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk"

Fred Allen

"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on"

Fred Allen

"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion"

Fred Allen

"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand"

Fred Allen

"It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals"

Fred Allen

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television"

Fred Allen

"I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement"

Fred Allen

"Television is the triumph of machine over people"

Fred Allen

"The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed"

Fred Allen

"I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is"

Fred Allen

"Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent"

Fred Allen

"A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better"

Fred Allen

"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back"

Fred Allen

"All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it"

Fred Allen

"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission"

Fred Allen

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners"

Fred Allen

"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference"

Fred Allen

"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin"

Fred Allen

"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer"

Fred Allen

"California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange"

Fred Allen