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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 15

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The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an

The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.

Thinking, Things In Life, Evil

"Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

Mistake, Simple, Heuristics

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Censorship, Film, Lit

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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.

Play, People, Actors

I am an only child. I have one sister.

Funny, Family, Children

After 60, all of us belong to the weaker sex.

Sex

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

Lonely, Children, Pain

"Woody Allen: 'The whole thing is tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

Powerful, Things In Life, Luck

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

Mad, Manhattan, Surface

"Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Manhattan, www.imdb.com. 1979.

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

Sports, Home, Night

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Inspirational, Funny, God

People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.

People, News, Want

Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.

Funny, Humorous, Names

Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

House, Sitting Down, Dinner

"Woody Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

"Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Witty, Art, Jobs

"Fictional character: Gertrude Stein". "Midnight in Paris", www.imdb.com. 2011.

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Maturity, Awakening, Tests

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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.

Silly, Home, Keys

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Angel, Men, Rights

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

Body, Achilles, Achilles Heel

Mighty Aphrodite, www.imdb.com. 1995.

There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

Inspiration, Writing, People

Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.

Needs, Enthusiasm, Drivers

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1975

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

Witty, Humorous, Thinking

"Fictional character: Mickey". Hannah and Her Sisters, www.imdb.com. 1986.

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

Girl, Suicide, College

Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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