Quote

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

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
Though
Sound
Benny
Stills
Violin
Still
Jack
Music
Strings
Play
Plays
Cat
Sounds

More quotes by Fred Allen

Image
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
Image
With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.
Fred Allen
Image
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen
Image
He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
Fred Allen
Image
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
Fred Allen
Image
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Fred Allen
Image
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
Image
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four
Fred Allen
Image
There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.
Fred Allen
Image
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
Image
The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen
Image
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
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
Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
Fred Allen
Image
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
Fred Allen
Image
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Fred Allen
Image
Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.
Fred Allen
Image
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
Fred Allen
Image
Television is a triumph of equipment over people.
Fred Allen
Image
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