Top 100 Quotes About Woody
#2. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
Woody Allen
#3. 'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
Woody Harrelson
#4. When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.
Woody Allen
#5. I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)
Woody Allen
#6. Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
Lena Dunham
#7. Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
Woody Allen
#8. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Woody Guthrie
#9. I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.
Woody Allen
#10. To me, I think it's this thing of everyone wanting to make Jesus the Son of God and Jesus the only way to God that is the thing that no longer makes me want to be a Christian.
Woody Harrelson
#11. It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.
Woody Harrelson
#12. When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.
Todd Rundgren
#13. Dying is like making love, except you don't get naseous afterwards.
Woody Allen
#14. My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one
Woody Allen
#15. If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.
Woody Allen
#16. In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.
Woody Allen
#17. For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.
Woody Allen
#18. Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.
Ian Shoales
#19. Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.
Woody Allen
#20. Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.
Woody Allen
#21. With me; it's just a genetic dissatisfaction with everything.
Woody Allen
#22. Don't trees swallow the fire of the sun? When wood burns, is it not surrendering all those photons of energy that the tree's leaves once snatched from sunlight and eventually stored within woody fiber?
Mark Warren
#23. In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.
Woody Allen
#24. Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.
Woody Allen
#25. 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
#26. Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.
Woody Harrelson
#27. The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
Woody Hayes
#28. I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.
Woody Allen
#29. The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.
Woody Allen
#30. It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
Woody Norris
#31. If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen
#32. I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.
Autre Ne Veut
#33. It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen
#34. I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."
George Clooney
#36. As I lay in prison, Sam, I tried to remember the Brandywine, and Woody End, and The Water running through the mill at Hobbiton. But I can't see them now.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. If you want to learn something, just steal it.
Woody Guthrie
#38. Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ... deadpan funny ... his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.
Ron Miles
#40. Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
Anne Northup
#41. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#42. 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
#43. I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
#44. 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
#45. It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom
Woody Allen
#46. I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.
Reed Mullin
#47. Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.
Woody Allen
#48. For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.
Woody Allen
#49. As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.
Woody Allen
#50. How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.
Woody Allen
#51. In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.
Woody Hayes
#53. The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.
Woody Allen
#54. Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed.
Woody Allen
#55. We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.
Woody Harrelson
#56. My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.
Alan Arkin
#57. So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.
Woody Harrelson
#58. Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
Steve Earle
#59. I read 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes," he says. "It's about Russia.
Woody Allen
#60. To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.
Woody Harrelson
#62. Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.
Brett Gelman
#63. I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.
Woody Allen
#64. I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion ... but it won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen
#65. I don't fear death. - I just don't want to be around when it happens.
Woody Allen
#66. As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.
Woody Allen
#67. Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.
Woody Harrelson
#68. When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.
Woody Allen
#69. I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
Woody Allen
#70. Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.
Woody Harrelson
#71. Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.
Cate Blanchett
#72. I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.
Woody Allen
#73. I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J
is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.
Woody Harrelson
#74. It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Scarlett Johansson
#75. Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.
Woody Allen
#76. What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.
Justin Townes Earle
#77. If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
Woody Guthrie
#78. There's no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith.
Woody Allen
#79. I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations against him continue to capture our national attention because so much of the story is strange and sordid.
Roxane Gay
#80. You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
Woody Allen
#82. Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call.
Peter Jacobson
#83. You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.
Woody Harrelson
#84. If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Woody Allen
#85. I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.
Woody Allen
#86. Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.
Woody Harrelson
#87. 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
#88. Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love
the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
Woody Allen
#89. Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
Billy Bragg
#90. A man is always better than he thinks.
Woody Hayes
#91. If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.
Jack Tatum
#92. We blow the past a kiss, our last blush of artifice as performers before this Future we're flirting with becomes terribly and totally Real. And we then begin to occupy reality.
Woody Evans
#93. Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
#94. The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.
Woody Hayes
#95. I'm a fan of Louis C.K., I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.
Jill Soloway
#96. To me nature is ... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating ... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.
Woody Allen
#97. The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.
Woody Allen
#98. I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.
Gary Shteyngart
#99. I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.
Woody Harrelson
#100. Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.
Woody Herman
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