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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 19

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I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and

I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.

Spiritual, Issues, Government

Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.

New York, Gun, Clothes

Source: www.woodyallen.art.pl

Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

Beautiful, Winning, Oasis

"Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

Summer, June, Tree

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

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

People, Interesting, Roles

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

Party, Two, Dresses

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

I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.

Couple, Fun, Past

Source: www.moviesonline.ca

Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.

Believe, Years, Atheism

Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

Reality, Seductive, Fantasy

"Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she's met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person?

Love You, Men, Wife

"Woody Allen: "The Whole Thing Is Tragic"". the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

Regarding love what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.

Hands, Eight, Quality

Love and Death (motion picture) (1975)

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.

Girl, Cutting, Emotional

"The Whore of Mensa". www.newyorker.com. December 16, 1974.

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Marriage, Cement

"What's New, Pussycat?", 1965.

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

Lying, Boys, Views

YouTube Chanel "filmfestivals.com"/ "Woody Allen on life", www.youtube.com. May 17, 2010.

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

Real, People, Actresses

"Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.

Way, Structure, Existence

CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.

Suicidal, Luck, Turns

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Love, Wisdom, Fowl

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

End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back, I stepped on it. Penélope [Cruz] and Javier [Bardem] anxious to work with me again. Said if I ever come up with another screenplay to try and find them. Goodbye drink with Rebecca [Hall]. Sentimental moment. Everyone in cast and crew chipped in and bought me a ballpoint pen.

Goodbye, Party, Trying

"Scarlett: 'What's my motivation here?' Woody: 'Your salary'" by Woody Allen, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2009.

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be sitting there and be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" Who wants to think about that stuff?

Morning, Thinking, Would Be

"Woody Allen Discusses "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. October 16, 2010.

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Passing Away, Groups, Peers

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

Real, Mistake, Home

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.

Ideas, Comedian, Next

All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car.

Eye, Car, Driving

In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.

Choices, Kitchen, Earth

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

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