Woody Allen Quotes
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The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.
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When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.
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There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.
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At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.
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I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law
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Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything.
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he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
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Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.
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The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
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The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!
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Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.
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There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.
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Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.
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I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.
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I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.
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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
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... years of insanity have made this guy crazy!
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Relationships are really what interest me the most. And I think, in the end, they interest most people the most. Even when you read Tolstoy or something, basically they're about man and woman relationships.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
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Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.
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I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.
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I carry a bullet in my breast pocket. Once, a crazy evangelist threw a bible at me, which would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.
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Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
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Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
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I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.
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Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
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I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.
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In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.
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It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.
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