Quote

The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

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
Make
Intellectual
Think
Lose
Loses
French
Artist
Glasses
Money
Myth
Film
Mistakes
Two
Wear
Years
Films

More quotes by Woody Allen

Image
It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.
Woody Allen
Image
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen
Image
You can't ride two horses with one behind.
Woody Allen
Image
... years of insanity have made this guy crazy!
Woody Allen
Image
The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!
Woody Allen
Image
The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.
Woody Allen
Image
It's all through the actors I cannot write in that idiom
Woody Allen
Image
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
Woody Allen
Image
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.
Woody Allen
Image
Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.
Woody Allen
Image
Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
Woody Allen
Image
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
Image
[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.
Woody Allen
Image
I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.
Woody Allen
Image
This stuff tastes awful I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.
Woody Allen
Image
I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.
Woody Allen
Image
I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.
Woody Allen
Image
I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Woody Allen
Image
God is either cruel or incompetent.
Woody Allen
Image
To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen