I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night. — 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 prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I keep getting more and more ambitious. Over the years, to some degree, in some areas, I feel I've grown. In some… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking]… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later… — 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… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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
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