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
humorous names letters
Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.
movie-love suffering unhappy
Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
new-york home ideas
I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.
mistake simple heuristics
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.
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I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.
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Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences. They were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could ‘relate without getting close.’ For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.
animal big-fish spiders
To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.
annie-hall busy cossacks
My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.
mistake today same-mistakes
I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.
people important complicated
It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.
sarcastic nature sarcasm
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
things-in-life best-things-in-life best-things
The best things in life are censored.
money children order
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
hurt getting-older quality
There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.