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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 20

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Last year I had difficulty with my income tax. I tried to take my analyst off as a business deduction. The Government said it was entertainment. We compromised finally and made it a religious contribution.

Last year I had difficulty with my income tax. I tried to take my analyst off as a business deduction. The Government said it was entertainment. We compromised finally and made it a religious contribution.

Religious, Government, Years

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."

Giving, Advice, Ends

"Reminiscences: Places And People". www.newyorker.com. December 29, 1975.

My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.

Writing, Years, Done

"Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

Real, People, Age

"Woody Allen Interview – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

Thinking, People, Luck

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

Men, World, Want

"Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors.

Interesting, Style, Directors

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

It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better, you have a lot of possibilities. You can edit it in certain ways so that it works, but there's no getting around weaknesses of the script.

Next Day, Weakness, Way

Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 13, 2008.

I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

Grows, Expressing Anger, I Can

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Leavers

Everyone Says I Love You, www.imdb.com. 1996.

You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

Drama, People, Interesting

CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

Funny, Dream, Humorous

"God". Play by Woody Allen, 1975.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

Funny, Basketball, Balls

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

Funny, Humor, World

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

Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.

Basketball, Morning, Doctors

"Woody Allen Interview to Rome with Love". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Showing Up, Percent

Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Aug. 1977

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

Life, Art, Doe

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Women, Self, Crash

"Husbands and Wives". www.imdb.com. 1992.

Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.

Mother, Autumn, Night

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

The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

Mean, Wish, Getting Older

Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

Maturity, Sweaters, Causes

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

A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

Inspirational, Sex, Desire

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

When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?

Men, Car, Doe

People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur to me--it's an odd thought and not realistic. Because funny and me are not separate. We're one.

Morning, Thinking, People

Humorists always sit at the children's table.

Children, Humor, Tables

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