Allen Quote by John Hughes

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other…

— David Bowie

I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and I hadn't…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and…

— Don Rickles

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

— Treat Williams

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

— Michael Pena

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to…

— Marc Maron

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you…

— Josh Widdicombe

When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a…

— Stephen Fry

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville