Fred Allen Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• Television is the triumph of machine over people.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, People

  9 Copy quote

• Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Technology

  9 Copy quote

• The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Men

  8 Copy quote

• I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.

  Fred Allen

  Men, Doctors, Boston

  5 Copy quote

• Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.

  Fred Allen

  Done, Radio, Mediums

  9 Copy quote

• Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

  Fred Allen

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Quoted in Newsweek, 14 Jan. 1980

  8 Copy quote

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Men, Gentleman

  11 Copy quote

• Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Long

  "The guy who brought The Beatles to America" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2014.

  78 Copy quote

• He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

  Fred Allen

  Anger, Use, Argument

  Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.134, Pickle Partners Publishing

  4 Copy quote

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Art, Humor

  13 Copy quote

• There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

  Fred Allen

  Two, Kind, Funny Jokes

  8 Copy quote

• He's so small, he's a waste of skin.

  Fred Allen

  Sarcastic, Skins, Waste

  9 Copy quote

• Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

  Fred Allen

  Art, Orange, Hollywood

  5 Copy quote

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Race

  10 Copy quote

• Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Success, Teaching

  8 Copy quote

• A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

  Fred Allen

  Talking, Comedian, Audience

  Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.14, Pickle Partners Publishing

  5 Copy quote

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

  Fred Allen

  Humor, Conversation, Fire Escapes

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  Love, Stay Strong, Goal

  54 Copy quote

• A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Work, Humor

  Treadmill to Oblivion pt. 2 (1954)

  7 Copy quote

• The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

  Fred Allen

  Average, Growth, President

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Life, Men, Objectivity

  8 Copy quote

• The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Friendship, Travel

  4 Copy quote

• Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

  Fred Allen

  Food, Paris, Cooking

  5 Copy quote

• Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, New York, Humor

  6 Copy quote

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Play

  13 Copy quote

Page 3 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin