Fred Allen Quotes
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Quotes to Explore
-
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
-
All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
-
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
-
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
-
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
-
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
-
I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
-
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
-
I love Channing Tatum!
-
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
-
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
-
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
-
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
-
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
-
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
-
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
-
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
-
I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.
-
Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
-
I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
-
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
-
It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.
-
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
