You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You're still in love' 'No I'm not, I'm not She'll always be a part of me, and she's an important person in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts… — 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 feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a nice person! I have healthy life drives and goals! I don't drink, I don't smoke. I would never force myself… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as… — 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
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
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
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
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
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen Copy Share
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. — Woody Allen Copy Share
There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important. — Woody Allen Copy Share