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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 25

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Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Witty, Humorous, Heart

"Mighty Aphrodite". www.imdb.com. 1995.

Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.

Memories, Book, Reading

The heart wants what it wants.

Witty, Inspirational Love, Humorous

Quoted in USA Today, 24 Aug. 1992 See Pascal 14

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Loyalty, Atheist, Religion

"Fictional character: Sandy Bates". "Stardust Memories", www.imdb.com. 1980.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

Reality, Imagination, Mind

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

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

Barcelona, Contradiction

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Science, People, Comforting

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

At night-club in Chicago, Mar. 1964, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two (Colpix CP 488) side 1, band 6

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

Heart, Together, Hard

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

Dying, Life Is Like, Concentration

"You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger". Comedy, Drama, Romance, 2010.

I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.

Country, Men, Eight

I read in self-defense.

Self, Defense, Self Defense

Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

Stills, Duplicate, Knows

I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

Years, Hell, Social

Sleeper, www.imdb.com. 1973.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

Cheating, Nyu, Wife

Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman - unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes.

Humorous, Moon, Swans

Subjectivity is objective.

Subjectivity, Objectives

Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

Funny, Mean, Drug

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

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

Heart, Parent, Identity

Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

Breakup, Children, Self

"Woody Allen Speaks Out". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

New York, Black And White, Cities

"Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

Real, Believe, People

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

Thinking, Ideas, Sparks

Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

Cutting, Guy, Intellectual

"Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

Fun, Play, Teeth

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