Quote

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

Fred Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
Story
Around
Stories
Human
Humans
Nothing
Skin
Skins

More quotes by Fred Allen

Image
In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.
Fred Allen
Image
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
Fred Allen
Image
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
Fred Allen
Image
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
Image
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
Fred Allen
Image
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.
Fred Allen
Image
He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
Fred Allen
Image
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen
Image
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen
Image
Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
Fred Allen
Image
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
Fred Allen
Image
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen
Image
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
Image
Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.
Fred Allen
Image
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
Fred Allen
Image
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
Image
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen
Image
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
Image
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen
Image
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen