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Time Quotes by Woody Allen

48 Time quotes by Woody Allen

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A future that holds both opportunities and pitfalls invites careful choices. He notes that life’s good moments feel tragic, and that the content of a film shapes its style. He also jokes that time moves faster for a man on a boat than for one standing on shore.

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There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only…

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My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.

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I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

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We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our…

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My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any…

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I didn't believe in reincarnation in my past life, and I still don't.

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In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.

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The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

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One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a…

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I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you…

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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to…

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I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every…

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People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the…

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Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun.…

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I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the…

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Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

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It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,…

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The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in…

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My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in…

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More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,…

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Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so…

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In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do…

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I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't…

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“David: And you think it can just evaporate? Even if at one time they loved one another? Marx: That's one of the…

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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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Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

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I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.

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The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.

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Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

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I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on…

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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

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The last time I was inside a woman was when I was inside the Statue of Liberty.

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There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

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“The only time that my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.”

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Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think…

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What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man…

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You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when…

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Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I…

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The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in…

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“UFOs are back in the news, and it is high time we took a serious look at the phenomenon. (Actually the time…

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What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

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…

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

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

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

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

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

You can't ride two horses with one behind.

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