Woody Allen
1935-|
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, USA Woody Allen Quotes
“I’d trade everything to be Marlon Brando. I so envied his talent - so thrilling to me.”“I never write down to them. I always assume that they’re all as smart as I am . . . if not smarter.” “Millions of books written on every conceivable subject by all these great minds and in the end, none of them knows anything more about the big questions of life than I do ... I read Socrates. This guy knocked off little Greek boys. What the Hell’s he got to teach me? And Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we’re gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. It’s not worth it. And Freud, another great pessimist. I was in analysis for years and nothing happened. My poor analyst got so frustrated, the guy finally put in a salad bar. Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.” “Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.” “I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.” “When you do comedy, you’re not sitting at the grown-ups’ table; you’re sitting at the children’s table.” “Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.” “I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I’m bringing a change of underwear.” “I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead.” “It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.” “It’s not that I’m afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” “Marriage is the death of hope.” “On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.” “The key is, to not think of death as an end, but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.” “The only difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody’s going to make fun of you.” “There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” “Ingmar Bergman amazes me in part because he tells intellectual stories and they move forward for endless amounts of time with no dialogue.” “Stanley Kubrick was a great artist. I say this all the time and people think I’m being facetious. I’m not. Kubrick was a guy who obsessed over details and did 100 takes, and you know, I don’t feel that way. If I’m shooting a film and it’s 6 o’clock at night and I’ve got a take, and I think I might be able to get a better take if I stayed, but the Knicks tipoff is at 7:30, then that’s it. The crews love working on my movies because they know they’ll be home by 6.” “The directors that have personal, emotional feelings for me are Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, and I’m sure there has been some influence but never a direct one. I never set out to try and do anything like them. But, you know, when you listen to a jazz musician like Charlie Parker for years and you love it, then you start to play an instrument, you automatically play like that at first, then you branch off with your own things. The influence is there, it’s in your blood.” “For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks but a divorce is something you always have.” “His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.” “I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” “I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the dean’s wife.” “I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” “Just don’t take any class where you have to read Beowulf.” “My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.” “Where did you go to finishing school? On a pirate ship?” “The wicked at heart probably know something.” “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” “For me, being famous didn’t help me that much. It helped a little. Warren Beatty once said to me many years ago, being a star is like being in a whorehouse with a credit card, and I never found that. For me, it was like being in a whorehouse with a credit card that had expired.” “I don’t care about heirs. Everybody should stop reproducing for a while and adopt all the kids that are loose.” “I’ll be profoundly wise and generous, liberal, understanding. I’d be surprised if I’d be less than perfect as a father.” “The baby’s fine. One problem is he looks like Edward G. Robinson.” “I can bring stars, I’ve worked with terrific cameramen, but people still have a better chance of making their 150 million dollars films because they’re not interested in the kind of profits I can bring if I’m profitable.” “I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don’t care about the films. I don’t care if they’re flushed down the toilet after I die.” “I never wanted movies to be an end. I wanted them to be a means so that I could have a decent life - meet attractive women, go out on dates, live decently. Not opulently, but with some security. I feel the same way now. A guy like Steven Spielberg will go live in the desert to make a movie, or Martin Scorsese will make a picture in India and set up camp and live there for four months. I mean, for me, if I’m not shooting in my neighborhood, it’s annoying. I have no commitment to my work in that sense. No dedication.” “I was just a poor student. I had no interest in it. When I make a film the tacit contract with the audience is that I will give them some entertainment and not bore them. I have to do that. I just lay a message on them. Great filmmakers, like Ingmar Bergman or Akira Kurosawa or Federico Fellini, they’re very entertaining, their films are fun. Well, in college they never made it entertaining for me, they just bored me stiff.” “I’ve never made a film that could remotely be considered a masterpiece. Not even remotely.” “In the United States things have changed a lot, and it’s hard to make good small films now. There was a time in the 1950s when I wanted to be a playwright, because until that time movies, which mostly came out of Hollywood, were stupid and not interesting. Then we started to get wonderful European films, and American films started to grow up a little bit, and the industry became more fun to work in than the theatre. I loved it. But now it’s taken a turn in the other direction and studios are back in command and are not that interested in pictures that make only a little bit of money. When I was younger, every week we’d get a Federico Fellini or an Ingmar Bergman or a Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut, but now you almost never get any of that. Filmmakers like myself have a hard time. The avaricious studios couldn’t care less about good films - if they get a good film they’re twice as happy, but money-making films are their goal. They only want these $100-million pictures that make $500 million. That’s why I’m happy to work in London, because I’m right back in the same kind of liberal creative attitude that I’m used to.” “It would sort of relieve the anxiety and the ambivalence I have about it if someone would say, ‘That’s it, it’s over. You cannot make another film.’ I’d suddenly heave a huge sigh of relief.” “Tedious, isn’t it?” “The best film I ever did - Stardust Memories - was my least popular film. That may automatically mean it was my best film.” “The sensibility of the film-maker infuses the project so people see a picture like Annie Hall (1977) and everyone thinks it’s so autobiographical. But I was not from Coney Island, I was not born under a Ferris wheel, my father never worked at a place that had bumper cars, that’s not how I met Diane Keaton, and that’s not how we broke up. Of course, there’s that character who’s always beleaguered and harassed. Certain things are autobiographical, certain feelings, even occasionally an incident, but overwhelmingly they’re totally made up, completely fabricated.” “We’d have better films if directors controlled them completely.” “For some reason I’m more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.” “I can’t imagine that the business should be run any other way than that the director has complete control of his films. My situation may be unique, but that doesn’t speak well for the business - it shouldn’t be unique, because the director is the one who has the vision and he’s the one who should put that vision onto film.” “I don’t watch funny movies. I watch Ingmar Bergman. He’s concerned with the silence of God and, in some small way, so am I.” “I wasn’t away. And I’m not back. Match Point (2005) was a film about luck, and it was a very lucky film for me. I did it the way I do all my pictures, and it just worked. I needed a rainy day, I got a rainy day. I needed sun, I got sun. Kate Winslet dropped out at the last moment because she wanted to be with her family, and Scarlett Johansson was available on two days’ notice. It’s like I couldn’t ruin this picture no matter how hard I tried.” “If my film makes one more person feel miserable, I’ll feel I’ve done my job.” “If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.” “Of course, I would love everybody to see my films. But I don’t care enough ever to do anything about it. I would never change a word or make a movie that I thought they would like. I really don’t care if they come or not. If they don’t want to come, then they don’t; if they do come, then great. Do I want to do what I do uncompromisingly, and would I love it if a big audience came? Yes, that would be very nice. I’ve never done anything to attract an audience, though I always get accused of it over the years.” “When I was doing Love and Death in Paris, the art director was a veteran of World War II who had spied, been caught, tortured and sent to a concentration camp. It made me feel so utterly trivial. It confronted a prejudice I’ve always had that, as Oscar Wilde said, art is useless.” “[On why he never watches his own films:] I think I would hate them.” “The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.” “Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.” “Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.” “You know a lot of geniuses, y’know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y’know, you could learn something.” “How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?” “How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.” “I don’t believe in God. Just try getting a plumber at the weekend.” “If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.” “If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.” “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” “Man was made in God’s image. Do you really think God has red hair and glasses?” “My Lord, my Lord! What hast Thou done, lately?” “To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.” “I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.” “The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5 foot 7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.” “I failed to make the chess team because of my height.” “George S. Kaufman and the Marx Brothers.” “Hollywood for the most part aimed at the lowest common denominator. It’s conceived in venality, it’s motivated by pandering to the public, by making a lot of money. People like Ingmar Bergman thought about life, and they had feelings, and they wanted to dramatize them and engage one in a dialogue. I felt I couldn’t easily be engaged by the nonsense that came out of Hollywood.” “My relationship with Hollywood isn’t love-hate, it’s love-contempt. I’ve never had to suffer any of the indignities that one associates with the studio system. I’ve always been independent in New York by sheer good luck. But I have an affection for Hollywood because I’ve had so much pleasure from films that have come out of there. Not a whole lot of them, but a certain amount of them have been very meaningful to me.” “Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.” “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.” “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” “At the core, life is a concentration camp.” “Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety.” “Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible are the cancer patients and the terminal cases... the miserable is everyone else. So, be thankful that you’re miserable.” “Life is for the living.” “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it’s all over much too soon.” “Most of life is tragic. You’re born, you don’t know why. You’re here, you don’t know why. You go, you die. Your family dies. Your friends die. People suffer. People live in constant terror. The world is full of poverty and corruption and war and Nazis and tsunamis. The net result, the final count is, you lose - you don’t beat the house.” “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” “Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” “I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.” “I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.” “Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.” “Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.” “Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.” “My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.” “More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” “For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal” “It’s something that happens to you. Like blight.” “There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.” “We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.” “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” “Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.” “Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.” “I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don’t think they know what they’re doing. When you see who wins those things - or who doesn’t win them - you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.” “I know it sounds horrible, but winning that Oscar for Annie Hall (1977) didn’t mean anything to me.” “They reside with my father, who polishes them. Well, I’m certainly not going to put Oscars in my house.” “They’re political and bought and negotiated for - although many worthy people have deservedly won - and the whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don’t.” “[On being nominated for Crimes and Misdemeanors:] You have to be sure to keep it very much in perspective. You think it’s nice at the time because it means more money for your film, but as soon as you let yourself start thinking that way, something happens to the quality of the work.” “I am at two with nature.” “I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.” “When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.” “As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’ - probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.” “You think the President of the United States wants to fuck every woman he meets?... Well, bad example.” “I thought of that old joke: This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken.’ And the doctor says, ‘Well why don’t you turn him in?’ and the guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships. They’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd, but I guess we keep going through it because most of us need the eggs.” “I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood. I was breast-fed through falsies.” “I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.” “I hate reality but it’s still the best place to get a good steak.” “My real obsessions are religious - to do with the meaning of life and the futility of obtaining immortality through art.” “Don’t knock masturbation - it’s sex with someone I love.” “Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.” “I don’t have to ‘freedom-kiss’ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.” “I think that people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.” “I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said ‘no’.” “I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.” “I’m a practicing heterosexual, although bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.” “Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.” “Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.” “My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.” “Regarding love... what can you say? It’s not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It’s the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.” “Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast.” “Sex and death are two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you’re not nauseous.” “Sex between two people is a beautiful thing; between five it’s fantastic ...” “Sex is the most fun I ever had without laughing.” “I don’t like Shakespeare’s comedies. I like his serious plays better. I prefer things that are sad and serious.” “It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.” “The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.” “This year [1977] I’m a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?” “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” “Great talent is an accident of birth.” “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach gym.” “In Beverly Hills... they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.” “In California, they don’t throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.” “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” “Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.” “Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.” “Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” “I had a line in one of my movies - ‘Everyone knows the same truth.’ Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. One person will distort it with a kind of wishful thinking like religion, someone else will distort it by thinking political solutions are going to do something, someone else will think a life of sensuality is going to do it, someone else will think art transcends. Art for me has always been the Catholicism of the intellectuals. There is no afterlife for the Catholics really, and there’s no afterlife for the arts. ‘Your painting lived on after you’ - well, that doesn’t really do it. That’s not what you want. Even if your painting does have some longevity, eventually that’s going to go. There won’t be any works of William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven, or any theatre to see them in, or air or light. I’ve always felt you’ve got to live your life within the context of this worst-case scenario. Which is true; the worst-case scenario is here.” “Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill ’em.” “Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.” “I’m happy with the typewriter. Heavy and solid, not like these plastic typewriters today. When my mother took me to buy it, the salesman told me: ‘This typewriter will last longer than you will.’ Looks like he might have been right.” “A lot of things have happened in my private life recently that I thought we could review tonight.” “As we know, for centuries Rome regarded the Open Hot Turkey Sandwich as the height of licentiousness.” “Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.” “Between the Pope and air conditioning, I’d choose air conditioning.” “Can we actually ‘know’ the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.” “Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib. ” “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.” “Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.” “Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.” “He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.” “How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?” “Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.” “I always think it is a mistake to try and be young, because I feel the young people in the United States have not distinguished themselves. The young audience in the United States have not proven to me that they like good movies or good theatre. The films that are made for young people are not wonderful films, they are not thoughtful. They are these blockbusters with special effects. The comedies are dumb, full of toilet jokes, not sophisticated at all. And these are the things the young people embrace. I do not idolize the young.” “I can’t express anger. That’s my problem. I internalize everything. I just grow a tumor instead.” “I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.” “I do feel that in everyday life people on a great spectrum get away with crime all the time, ranging from genocide to just street crime. Most crimes do go unsolved, and people commit murders and ruin other people and do the worst things in the world, and, you know, there’s no one to penalize you if you don’t have a sense of conscience about it. There is an element in life of enormous, enormous injustice that we live with all the time. It’s just an ugly-but-true fact of life.” “I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion.” “I have a high feminine component. I grew up cutting out paper dolls and dressing Deanna Durbin cut-outs. Mia is the one who. at her farm, drives the tractor and knows how to repair the television set.” “I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.” “I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!” “I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man’s plight in this mysterious universe.” “I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” “I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” “I’m not really the heroic type. I was beat up by Quakers.” “I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy myself, but I didn’t.” “I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.” “I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.” “I’ve often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me” “In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.” “Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.” “It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.” “It’s just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.” “It’s true I had a lot of anxiety. I was afraid of the dark and suspicious of the light.” “Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.” “My brain: It’s my second favorite organ.” “My brother beat me. My sister beat my brother. My father beat my sister, my brother, and me. My mother beat my father, my sister, my brother, and me. The neighbors beat our family. The family down the street beat the neighbors and our family.” “Now is the time to strike. The Leader is at great handicap, he has no head or body!” “She’s 17. I’m 42 and she’s 17. I’m older than her father, can you believe that? I’m dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father.” “Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.” “Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.” “Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.” “The biggest flaw in being self-taught is there are gaps. You self-teach yourself something and you think you know something fairly well, but then there are gaps a university teacher would have taught you as part of a mandatory program. I would probably have been better off if I’d got a better general education, but I was just so bored.” “The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he is evil. I think that the worst thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever.” “The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.” “The two biggest myths about me are that I’m an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I’m an artist because my films lose money. Those two myths have been prevalent for many years.” “The... the other important joke, for me, is one that’s usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud’s ‘Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious’, and it goes like this - I’m paraphrasing - um, ‘I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.’ That’s the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women.” “There was no ripple professionally for me at all when I was in the papers with my custody stuff. I made my films, I worked in the streets of New York, I played jazz every Monday night, I put a play on. Everything professionally went just the same. There were no repercussions. There was white-hot interest for a while, like with all things like that, and then it became uninteresting to people.” “There’s an old joke... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ’em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’ Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness - and it’s all over much too quickly.” “This is so antiseptic. It’s empty. Why do you think this is funny? You’re going by audience reaction? This is an audience that’s raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!” “To a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.” “Tradition is the illusion of permanance.” “We shot a large section [of Hannah and Her Sisters] in Mia’s apartment - perfect for me, because I always go over there anyhow.” “What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn’t for certain people.” “What are you telling me, that you’re, you’re, you’re gonna leave Emily, is this true? And, and run away with the, the, the winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald emotional maturity award?” “What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.” “What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?” “When I was a kid, movies from Hollywood seemed very glamorous, but when you look back at them as a young man, you can see out of the thousands of films that came out of Hollywood there were really very few good ones statistically, and those few that were good were made in spite of the studios. I saw European films as a young man and they were very much better. There’s no comparison.” “When I was in my early twenties, I knew a man who has since died, who was older than me and also very crazy. He’d been in a straitjacket and institutionalized, and I found him very brilliant. When I would speak to him about writing, about life, art, women, he was very, very cogent - but he couldn’t lead his own life, he just couldn’t manage.” “When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.” “Where I grew up... in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide... you know, everyone was too unhappy.” “Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?” “Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?” “With my complexion I don’t tan, I stroke.” “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” “You know I can tolerate anybody’s orphans but my own.” |
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Woody Allen directed the following films:What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) Take the Money and Run (1969) Bananas (1971) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex – But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) Sleeper (1973) Love and Death (1975) Annie Hall (1977) Interiors (1978) Manhattan (1979) Stardust Memories (1980) A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982) Zelig (1983) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Radio Days (1987) September (1987) Another Woman (1988) New York Stories (1989) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Alice (1990) Shadows and Fog (1991) Husbands and Wives (1992) Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Mighty Aphrodite (1995) Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Deconstructing Harry (1997) Celebrity (1998) Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Small Time Crooks (2000) The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) Hollywood Ending (2002) Anything Else (2003) Melinda and Melinda (2004) Match Point (2005) Scoop (2006) Cassandra’s Dream (2007) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Whatever Works (2009) Untitled Woody Allen London Project (2010) |
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