Quote

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

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
Better
Bedroom
Great
Sounds
Alive
Writing
Actors
Make
Sound
Always
Faith
Write
Stuff
Improvise

More quotes by 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
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
Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.
Woody Allen
Image
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody Allen
Image
I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.
Woody Allen
Image
My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?
Woody Allen
Image
Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.
Woody Allen
Image
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Image
Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
Woody Allen
Image
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.
Woody Allen
Image
There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.
Woody Allen
Image
My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.
Woody Allen
Image
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.
Woody Allen
Image
I'm awash in self-contempt!
Woody Allen
Image
Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
Image
I write the script nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.
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
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.
Woody Allen
Image
Nothing like a little post-traumatic stress disorder to make your day complete.
Woody Allen
Image
I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen