Quote

People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.

Woody Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Woody Allen
Age: 88
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
Everybody
Death
Part
Must
Something
Life
People
News
Stop

More quotes by Woody Allen

Image
I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood I was breast-fed through falsies.
Woody Allen
Image
I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.
Woody Allen
Image
One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.
Woody Allen
Image
Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it. You don't have to be great to make a living at it. Just like a doctor who doesn't have to be great can still make a living out of it.
Woody Allen
Image
I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.
Woody Allen
Image
My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.
Woody Allen
Image
Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep.
Woody Allen
Image
I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.
Woody Allen
Image
There's something about my films they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.
Woody Allen
Image
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen
Image
There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.
Woody Allen
Image
Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.
Woody Allen
Image
I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.
Woody Allen
Image
I see the glass half full...but of poison.
Woody Allen
Image
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.
Woody Allen
Image
Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.
Woody Allen
Image
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
Woody Allen
Image
A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.
Woody Allen
Image
When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.
Woody Allen
Image
How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?
Woody Allen