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Audience Quotes by Woody Allen

10 Audience quotes by Woody Allen

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Allen’s wry observations turn the crowd into a source of both comedy and existential dread. In this concise collection, his trademark self‑deprecation and clever wordplay reveal how he sees the people sitting in the seats.

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The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

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Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

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My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and…

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The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!

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I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as…

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[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These…

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I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they…

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I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if…

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What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It…

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There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been…

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.

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Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

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All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

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There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

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You can't ride two horses with one behind.

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Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

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