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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 16

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Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

Race, World, Aggressive

Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

Fun, Sleep, People

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Excellence, Body, Lions

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

I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

Reality, Years, Magic

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

Crumbs, Results, Humans

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

Me and nature are two.

Two, Environmental

In fact, when they wake up in the morning, they're Jack Nicholson or Robert De Niro or Josh Brolin. And it's built-in, but they think it's all this other stuff. But it's not. They'd be great if they didn't think about their part or if they did think about it.

Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

Mean, Ice, Way

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

Life's hard, then you die.

Life Is Hard, Cans Of Worms, Meaningful Death

I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.

People, Tragedy, Hollywood

Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Self, Tree, Defense

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

Quality, Half, Toilets

"Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.

Witty, Sex, Humorous

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.

Sleep, Flames, Years

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

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Funny, Life, Death

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

I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

Witty, New York, Humorous

Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Sarcastic, Horse, Sadism

"Fictional character: Tiger Lily". " What's Up, Tiger Lily?", www.imdb.com. 1966.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Fun, Men, Two

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Funny, Humor, Intelligent

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

Believe, People, Catholic

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

Mother, Children, Middle Child

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

Sex, Reincarnation, Fingertips

I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.

Relationship, Moving, Thinking

Annie Hall (motion picture) (1977). Cowritten with Marshall Brickman.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

Art, Wind, Two

Stardust Memories (motion picture) (1980)

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Meaning Of Life, Life Is, Human Nature

Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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