Fred Allen
Fred Allen
John Florence Sullivan, known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically-pointed radio program The Fred Allen Showmade him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth31 May 1894
CityCambridge, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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I had to come out one more time to take a look. I had a lot of fun and spent a lot of time out here. Our kids grew up out here.
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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.
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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.
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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
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I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
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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.
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.