Steve Allen: Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Steve Allen: Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.
Steve Allen: When I ad-lib something, I laugh. I laugh for the same reasons the audience does; I've never heard that joke before -- and I'm just as surprised as they are.
Steve Allen: Hosting a talk show is the easiest job anybody ever had.
Steve was cited as "the most prolific songwriter of modern times" in the 1985 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records.
Steve composed the score for the spy-film flop A Man Called Dagger (1967).
Steve was inducted into Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1986.
Steve was given the Lifetime Acheievement Award in Comedy at the American Comedy Awards in 1987.
In the mid '70s Steve Allen helped his game partner, a pre-"Three's Company" Richard Kline, win $10,000 on "The $10,000 Pyramid" when Kline was a contestant while working as a waiter in NYC.
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