Fred Allen

Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred AllenCalifornia is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange. Fred AllenCommittee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. Fred AllenHollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. 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 AllenImitation is the sincerest form of television. Fred Allen What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement? Fred AllenYou can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. Fred Allen [Television is] the triumph of machine over people. Fred Allen I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there. Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done. Fred Allen, on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950

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