I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do… — Woody Allen Copy Share
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image