Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allenis an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, playwright and musician, whose career spans more than six decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 December 1935
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
failure trying learning-from-mistakes
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.
sex gold female
Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female.
silly home keys
The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely "acting silly" or "behaving like an ass.
failing innovative ifs
If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative
crime capital-punishment mankind
Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?
ladders showing-up good-enough
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
grows tumors
I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.
football beer games
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.
girl years scandal
What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.
film audience has-beens
My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.
compassion men evening
One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.
dying life-is-like concentration
Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.
stars reality larger-than-life
I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies.
running block talking
I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.