
Top 100 D Allen Quotes
#1. Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.
Woody Allen
#2. If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.
Tim Allen
#3. I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.
Joan Allen
#4. I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.
Woody Allen
#5. I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
Woody Allen
#6. To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
Sarah Addison Allen
#7. Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue for a poison pen.
Sarah Addison Allen
#8. But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn't make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She'd always been too desperate about Jake. Always.
Sarah Addison Allen
#9. She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!
Lily Allen
#11. If she'd been a color, she would have been bright green. If she'd been a scent, she would have been new paper. She was happy and intelligent and afraid of nothing.
Sarah Addison Allen
#12. If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.
Woody Allen
#13. I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff.
Jeremy Allen White
#14. I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.
Jean Pigozzi
#15. I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
Allen Iverson
#16. 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
#17. Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.
D. Allen Miller
#18. ...this money goes to a war machine, a war machine that attacks its own citizens and those of other countries to force them into submission. They spend billions, even trillions of dollars on foreign aid while our own citizens cannot dig out of poverty.
J.C. Allen
#19. I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.
Lily Allen
#20. The morning sun on her white hair and pale face made her seem almost translucent. She'd been a beautiful woman in her day, with wide eyes, high cheekbones, and a long, thin nose. Sometimes you could still catch sight of that beauty, and it was like looking through enchanted glass.
Sarah Addison Allen
#21. If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen
#22. In all of our battles, let's roar with the conquering powers of love and determination.
D. Allen Miller
#23. When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
Ted Allen
#24. Beyond reasonable doubt, the each of us possesses unique gifts, amazing abilities to help heal the world if we so choose.
D. Allen Miller
#25. A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
Ted Allen
#26. If that's the case.. Go deeper. To a world darker than black, brighter than white ... Embrace it.
Katsura Hoshino
#27. For God sakes, this is a woman I was married to for 10 years. We made love. I'd hold her head over the toilet bowl when she threw up.
Woody Allen
#28. Even though the wounds will heal the scars will remain.
Allen Walker
#29. The trick to getting through life, she'd told him, is not to resent it when it isn't exactly how you think it should be.
Sarah Addison Allen
#30. Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.
Allen Boyd
#31. One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.
John R. Allen
#32. If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge.
David Allen
#33. I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar ... I'd pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I'd go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did.
Tim Allen
#34. I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.
Anne Waldman
#35. When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
Gracie Allen
#36. Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.
Sarah Addison Allen
#37. When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets ... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.
Woody Allen
#38. What is the opposite of abundance? It's not scarcity. It's greed. Greed is the belief that there is not enough for everyone, so you'd better grab yours now. What is the opposite of love? It's not hate. It's fear. Fear is the belief that someone or something can hurt you.
Robert G. Allen
#39. No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker)
Katsura Hoshino
#40. He'd always liked the way Josey smelled. He thought about how she was wearing her curly black hair down that night, how she was in that tight sweater he'd seen her in so many times, the red so striking against her pale skin. And he wasn't the only man here who had noticed.
Sarah Addison Allen
#41. I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.
Allen Iverson
#42. We need to contact NSA, CIA, anybody using initials... and the President!
J.C. Allen
#43. I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.
Richie Allen
#44. the lies of the creative artist are truer than the truth of the half-sleeping ordinary man
Malcolm D. Allen
#45. Whatever it is that may be bothering you, whatever it is that may have your attention arrested, you have the power to rescue yourself.
D. Allen Miller
#46. Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.
Woody Allen
#47. Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to systematical oppression, in distractions that keep us mentally, socially and often physically retarded.
D. Allen Miller
#48. She didn't exactly miss being that age
She'd been a college dropout and drank too much and partied too hard
but she did miss that sense of living in the moment, of living to feel.
Sarah Addison Allen
#49. 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
#50. If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.
Rick Allen
#51. Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
Rick Allen
#52. I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Fred Allen
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.
Rick Allen
#56. Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
#57. A week earlier I'd been locked into the idea that the Redskins would win easily
but when Nixon came out for them and George Allen began televising his prayer meetings I decided that any team with both God and Nixon on their side was fucked from start.
Hunter S. Thompson
#58. If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.
Julie Delpy
#59. It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.
Ted Allen
#60. Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live on for ever through the silver screen. Allen answered that 'I'd rather live on in my apartment.
Yuval Noah Harari
#62. I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
Karen Allen
#63. When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
#64. She'd spent enough time in this life to know that not everything will go your way. She'd read enough books to know that they weren't all happy endings.
Sarah Addison Allen
#65. I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.
Tim Allen
#66. I gained the weight on purpose for 'Little Nicky,' and it was one of those cases where I'd done a few roles where I looked the same way, and I wanted to be the roommate because I thought that was the funniest part for me.
Allen Covert
#67. See?" I crowed. "I know what I'm doing. Two weeks, tops, and you'll be begging to dip your fries in my shake."
"You think?"
It took me about a second before I realized I'd done it again. My mouth seriously needed a chaperone.
Elise Allen
#68. He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn't looked there in a long, long time.
He'd forgotten how bright it was.
So bright he could hardly stand it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#69. I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!
Paul Allen
#70. If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Woody Allen
#71. She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent.
Sugary and sweet.
Herby and sharp.
Yeasty and fresh.
Sarah Addison Allen
#72. Though snails are exceedingly slow,
There is one thing I'd like to know.
If I out run 'em round the yard,
How come they beat me to the chard?
Allen Klein
#73. I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.
Tim Allen
#74. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.
Woody Allen
#75. I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.
D. Allen Miller
#76. I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.
Gwendoline Christie
#77. The neighborhood homeowners always knew when she ran by, because they suddenly felt the desire to organize their sock drawers and finally replace those burned out light-bulbs they'd been meaning to.
Sarah Addison Allen
#78. She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.
Sarah Addison Allen
#79. I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.
Woody Allen
#80. He loved that she made him something he never thought he'd been capable of being. Someone who stayed.
Sarah Addison Allen
#81. I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
Lily Allen
#82. In fact, when they wake up in the morning, they're Jack Nicholson or Robert De Niro or Josh Brolin. And it's built-in, but they think it's all this other stuff. But it's not. They'd be great if they didn't think about their part or if they did think about it.
Woody Allen
#83. I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.
Allen West
#84. He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.
Sarah Addison Allen
#85. Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed.
Sarah Addison Allen
#86. The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four
Fred Allen
#87. You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
Sarah Addison Allen
#88. I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.
Lily Allen
#89. I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
Richie Allen
#90. I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies. I've never felt I've made a great movie.
Woody Allen
#91. As human beings we can't stop the flow of time, but we can choose to do something constructive with the time that we have.
D. Allen Miller
#92. It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Sarah Addison Allen
#93. I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.
Hoodie Allen
#94. It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
Betsy Brandt
#95. They were wounded. They were victims. If only they had everything they'd ever wanted, then they'd be okay. But because they didn't, it was everyone else's fault.
Sarah Addison Allen
#96. He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.
Sarah Addison Allen
#97. We need to set things in order, they all thought as Bay ran down the street every afternoon after school. But, as soon as she passed, their thoughts quickly drifted back to where they'd been before -
Sarah Addison Allen
#98. He wasn't used to people saying no, and Eby felt sorry for him, the way she'd always felt sorry for those who had everything and it still wasn't enough.
Sarah Addison Allen
#99. Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
Ted Allen
#100. You were staring out at the horizon, telling me it was the most beautiful thing you'd ever seen, and I was staring at you thinking the exact same thing.
K.K. Allen
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