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An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
— Fred Allen
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
— Fred Allen
Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.
— Fred Allen
I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
— Sarah Addison Allen
All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
— Fred Allen
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
— Fred Allen
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
— Fred Allen
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
— 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
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
— Fred Allen
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
— Fred Allen
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
— Fred Allen
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
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
A group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done
— Fred Allen
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
— 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
Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.
— Fred Allen
She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.
— Fred Allen
He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
— 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 Allen
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
— Fred Allen
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
— Fred Allen
Televisio is a vehicle that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
— Fred Allen
It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.
— Fred Allen
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
— Fred Allen
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
I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
— Fred Allen
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
— Fred Allen
The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.
— Fred Allen
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
— Fred Allen
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.
— Fred Allen
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
— 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 celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to be well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
— 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