Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allenis an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, playwright and musician, whose career spans more than six decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 December 1935
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
confusing life-is uncertain
Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.
oasis agony delight
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it [salvation] is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.
knowledge rivers drink
Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.
whining structure sentences
Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.
sarcastic nature sarcasm
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.
loneliness boys two
There's an old joke - um... 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.
agnostic existential
I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.
sarcastic sarcasm years
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
tradition illusion
Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
sunday player tennis
I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.
single divorce vacation
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.
cents
90 per cent of success is turning up.
daughter fun simple
I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.
directors would-be film
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.