Quote

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

Woody Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Woody Allen
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
Author
Character Actor
Clarinetist
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Jazz Musician
Journalist
Musician
Playwright
The Bronx
New York City
Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Heywood Allen
Bergman
Picasso
Painter
Dinner
Sitting
Felt
House
Like

More quotes by Woody Allen

Image
The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term demonstration. If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely acting silly or behaving like an ass.
Woody Allen
Image
Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.
Woody Allen
Image
Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?
Woody Allen
Image
The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?
Woody Allen
Image
Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.
Woody Allen
Image
If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
Woody Allen
Image
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
Image
You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.
Woody Allen
Image
I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.
Woody Allen
Image
I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.
Woody Allen
Image
I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me I want to be stuffed with crab meat.
Woody Allen
Image
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody Allen
Image
I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.
Woody Allen
Image
The best an idea gets is when its in your head.
Woody Allen
Image
If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.
Woody Allen
Image
If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.
Woody Allen
Image
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.
Woody Allen
Image
I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.
Woody Allen
Image
As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form.
Woody Allen
Image
I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.
Woody Allen