Quote

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

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
Idiom
Existential
Expressed
Anxiety
Stills
Still
May
People

More quotes by Woody Allen

Image
To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.
Woody Allen
Image
I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.
Woody Allen
Image
Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.
Woody Allen
Image
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
Image
I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Woody Allen
Image
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
Image
he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something
Woody Allen
Image
I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.
Woody Allen
Image
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.
Woody Allen
Image
I see the glass half full...but of poison.
Woody Allen
Image
Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.
Woody Allen
Image
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
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
What' s the matter with me? Why can't I be cool?
Woody Allen
Image
. . . they confuse everything I do with my life.
Woody Allen
Image
But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.
Woody Allen
Image
The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.
Woody Allen
Image
Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.
Woody Allen
Image
I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.
Woody Allen
Image
I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women have told me over the years that it is very, very important to them.
Woody Allen