Fred Allen Quotes - Page 3

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

  Fred Allen

  Done, Radio, Mediums

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

  Fred Allen

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Quoted in Newsweek, 14 Jan. 1980

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Men, Gentleman

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Letter to Groucho Marx, 12 June 1953

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Art, Humor

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• My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

  Fred Allen

  Agents, Headache, Percent

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

  Fred Allen

  Two, Kind, Funny Jokes

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• After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.

  Fred Allen

  Money, Aspirin, Radio

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

  Fred Allen

  Sarcastic, Skins, Waste

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

  Fred Allen

  Art, Orange, Hollywood

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Race

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• 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

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• 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

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• Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

  Fred Allen

  Art, Two, Gnats

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

  Fred Allen

  Humor, Conversation, Fire Escapes

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Fred Allen

  Food, Paris, Cooking

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• Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

  Fred Allen

  Uncles, Southern, Alabama

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.102, Wildside Press LLC

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• An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.215, Wildside Press LLC

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