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
wall trying actors
I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff. I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.
character italian fictional-character
I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.
people film baskets
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.
funny life humor
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
oasis agony delight
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it [salvation] is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.
new-york paper reason
For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.
cute witty humorous
Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,
play people actors
The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.
tragedy tennessee dramatic
When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.
funny team chess-game
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
hey littles pay
Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.
sunday player tennis
I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.
inspirational inspiring hope
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
sarcastic sarcasm years
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.