Woody Allen citations (244 citations, Page 8)

" Death (A Play) http://books.google.com/books?id=qjRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It's+not+that+I'm+afraid+to+die+I+just+don't+want+to+be+there+when+it+happens%22&pg=PA99#v=onepage". <br class="br">Without Feathers (1975)

“You start to think, when you’re younger, how important everything is and how things have to go right—your job, your career, your life, your choices, and all of that. Then, after a while, you start to realise that – I’m talking the big picture here – eventually you die, and eventually the sun burns out and the earth is gone, and eventually all the stars and all the planets in the entire universe go, disappear, and nothing is left at all. Nothing – Shakespeare and Beethoven and Michelangelo gone. And you think to yourself that there’s a lot of noise and sound and fury – and where’s it going? It’s not going any place… Now, you can’t actually live your life like that, because if you do you just sit there and – why do anything? Why get up in the morning and do anything? So I think it’s the job of the artist to try and figure out why, given this terrible fact, you want to go on living.”

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Interview with France 24 (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MsuqvLIttk.

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

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What's New, Pussycat? (1965).

“How could I not have known that there are little things the size of "Planck length" in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find.”

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Woody Allen livre Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”

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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).

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

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Woody Allen livre Getting Even

Getting Even (1971), My Philosophy

“Death is like a colonoscopy, the problem is that life is like the prep day.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqYu37GjTg

“Taste my tuna casserole — tell me if I put in too much hot fudge.”

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Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

“I WANTED nothing more than to be a foreign filmmaker, but of course I was from Brooklyn, which was not a foreign country. Through a happy accident I wound up being a foreign filmmaker because I couldn’t raise money any other way.”

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As quoted in the New York Times, That’s Amore: Italy as Muse: Woody Allen on Italian Movies and ‘To Rome With Love’ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/movies/woody-allen-on-italian-movies-and-to-rome-with-love.html?_r=1&smid=FB-nytimes&WT.mc_id=MO-E-FB-SM-LIN-TAI-061912-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click, June 15, 2012. <br class="br">Others

“The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”

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Love and Death (1975)

“Change is death.”

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Husbands and Wives.

“I made the statement years ago which is often quoted that 80 percent of life is showing up.”

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People used to always say to me that they wanted to write a play, they wanted to write a movie, they wanted to write a novel, and the couple of people that did it were 80 percent of the way to having something happen. All the other people struck out without ever getting that pack. They couldn’t do it, that’s why they don’t accomplish a thing, they don’t do the thing, so once you do it, if you actually write your film script, or write your novel, you are more than half way towards something good happening. So that I was say [sic] my biggest life lesson that has worked. All others have failed me. <br class="br"> Interview for The Collider (2008) http://collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/8878/tcid/1/pg/2.

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.”

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“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”

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“It is a gorgeous gold pocket watch, however, I'm proud of it. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.”

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Standup Comic (1999)

“He had been mistaken several times for Robert Redford, but on each occasion it was by a blind person.”

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