Facts about Woody Allen 
Summary
Woody Allen is a famous Director from USA, he is still alive and was born December 1, 1935.
Biography
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in Brooklyn, New York), formal name Heywood Allen is an American film director, screenwriter, stand-up comedian, short story writer and actor, whose work has made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in modern times. He writes scripts for and directs his own films and has starred in many of them.
Allen draws inspiration from literature, philosophy, psychology, European film and the city of New York, where he was born and has lived all his life. On the screen he appears as an intellectual Jewish New Yorker, neurotic and self-centered, urban with a lack of confidence and good humor.
In 1977 Allen won two Academy Awards the film Annie and I (Annie Hall): for best director and best original screenplay. In 1986 he won the Oscar for best original screenplay of the movie Hannah and Her Sisters. No less than twelve of Allen's other movies have managed to be nominated for one or more Academy Awards; last movie Match Point from 2005, which was nominated for the award for best original screenplay. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 63 quotes who is written / told by Woody, under the main topics: Food, Funny, Marriage, Nature.
Related authors: Tom Hiddleston, Rita Rudner
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen
Famous quotes by Woody Allen (63)
"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good"
"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up"
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage"
"Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen"
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative"
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank"
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies"
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans"
"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch"
"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens"
"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back"
"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"
"I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own"
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens"
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more"
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune"
"In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker"
"In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows"
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown"
"I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse"
"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox"
"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia"
"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice"
"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal"
"I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!"
"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys"
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy"
"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian"
"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there"
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it"
"Eighty percent of success is showing up"
"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down"
"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue"
"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night"
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet"
"Tradition is the illusion of permanance"
"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition"
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once"
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have"
"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep"
"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"
"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness"
"Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words"
"Marriage is the death of hope"
"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun"
"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon"
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable"
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television"
"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"
"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib"
"I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her"
"I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear"
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government"
"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose"
"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"
"I failed to make the chess team because of my height"
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens"
"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats"
"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"
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