Quote

Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything.

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
Running
Pouring
Anything
Embarrassed
Heart
Wrote
Would
Drama
People
Poetry
Humor
Risk
Read
Mitigating

More quotes by Woody Allen

Image
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Woody Allen
Image
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
Image
The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in Husbands and Wives - is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, nervous New York film, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.
Woody Allen
Image
I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York.
Woody Allen
Image
I read in self-defense.
Woody Allen
Image
New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.
Woody Allen
Image
When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.
Woody Allen
Image
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.
Woody Allen
Image
Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.
Woody Allen
Image
To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
Image
You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.
Woody Allen
Image
You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.
Woody Allen
Image
I don't fear death. - I just don't want to be around when it happens.
Woody Allen
Image
The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.
Woody Allen
Image
My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.
Woody Allen
Image
The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.
Woody Allen
Image
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.
Woody Allen
Image
Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
Woody Allen
Image
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Woody Allen
Image
How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?
Woody Allen