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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 27

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The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

Democracy, Shut Up, Dictatorship

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Kissing, Wife, Want

"Woody Allen urges US to french kiss, preferably in France", www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.

Funny, British, Knows

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Funny, Death, Lying

Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.

New York, Europe, Psychology

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

Country, New York, Thinking

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

Better not think too much. Relying more on the body: it is more trustworthy.

Thinking, Body, Too Much

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

Hipster, Names, Used

"American Apparel settles Woody Allen suit for $5 million" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2009.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

People, Dying, Want

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Funny, Death, Humor

One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.

Men, Compassion, Evening

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Long, Mind, Dying

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

Character, Writing, Exhilarating Feeling

Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.

Heart, Men, Mind

I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed.

Men, Long, Relaxed

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

Reality, Thinking, Dentist

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

Discovery, Water, Community

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

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

Thinking, Woods, Christ

"Fictional character: Boris". "Love and Death", www.imdb.com. 1975.

But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

What If, Needs, Ears

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

I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.

Apartment

I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.

Faith, Believe, Existence

"Fictional character: Kleinmann". Shadows and Fog, www.imdb.com. 1991.

For God sakes, this is a woman I was married to for 10 years. We made love. I'd hold her head over the toilet bowl when she threw up.

Years, Toilets, Sake

"Fictional character: Val". Hollywood Ending, www.imdb.com. 2002.

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

Regret, Writing, School

Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

Marriage, Giving Up, Names

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

Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

Baseball, Beer, Culture

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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