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Quotes About Woody Allen

On the flip side is Woody Allen's nebbish observation: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Companion words include mischief and bonchief, a bad result and a good result, respectively
~ Phil Cousineau
I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...
~ Adam Levin
...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...
~ Adam Levin, The Instructions
The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.
~ Woody Allen
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
~ Sean Penn
Given the consistency and dimensions of his exaltation of flops, it has remained a puzzle on par with string theory how he manages to raise money for each fresh theatrical holocaust.
~ Woody Allen
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought, particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
~ Woody Allen
I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
~ Woody Allen
[Of bisexuality:] It immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
~ Woody Allen
Two hundred and four if you count my marriage.
~ Woody Allen
The man has an axe. There's two of us. There'll be four of us in no time.
~ Woody Allen
I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.
~ Woody Allen
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."
~ Woody Allen
Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
~ Woody Allen
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
~ Woody Allen, Without Feathers
I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Woody Allen once quipped that dwarf is once of the four funniest words in the English language. To be in your very essence perceived as comical is a significant burden.
~ Andrew Solomon
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
~ Antony Sher
I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!
~ Andy Cohen
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
~ Antony Sher
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
~ Radha Mitchell
I was raised by a dad who has a fantastic sense of humor who raised me on 'The Muppet Show,' Steve Martin movies, and Woody Allen's standup, and he really encouraged me to ham it up from an early age.
~ Janet Varney
What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.
~ Sally Rooney
Woody Allen's sense of humour has always attracted me, and I love the way he can make life so meaningful and yet show us what a farce it can be at the same time.
~ Kalki Koechlin