Top 100 Woody's Quotes

#1. 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

Woody's Quotes #11819
#2. 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

Woody's Quotes #22091
#3. It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #25806
#4. When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.

Todd Rundgren

Woody's Quotes #26686
#5. With me; it's just a genetic dissatisfaction with everything.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #39954
#6. 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

Woody's Quotes #41084
#7. 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

Woody's Quotes #43268
#8. Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #43600
#9. 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

Woody's Quotes #47657
#10. It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #49043
#11. 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

Woody's Quotes #50940
#12. It's the best thing going, parenthood.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #57439
#13. Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

Anne Northup

Woody's Quotes #60574
#14. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

Woody Hayes

Woody's Quotes #60721
#15. 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

Woody's Quotes #61665
#16. It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #70224
#17. 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

Woody's Quotes #73244
#18. 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

Woody's Quotes #74676
#19. 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

Woody's Quotes #81006
#20. 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

Woody's Quotes #89195
#21. 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

Woody's Quotes #92688
#22. I read 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes," he says. "It's about Russia.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #95072
#23. 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

Woody's Quotes #98669
#24. I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #100300
#25. 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

Woody's Quotes #105108
#26. 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

Woody's Quotes #113449
#27. 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

Woody's Quotes #114515
#28. 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

Woody's Quotes #118536
#29. 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

Woody's Quotes #127645
#30. 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

Woody's Quotes #127940
#31. There's no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #134722
#32. 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

Woody's Quotes #140127
#33. 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

Woody's Quotes #151384
#34. 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

Woody's Quotes #166635
#35. 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

Woody's Quotes #168639
#36. 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

Woody's Quotes #170851
#37. Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #174200
#38. Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK?
It'll be a year come April 20th.
I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #174417
#39. Thither he bent his way, determined there
to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade
high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
That opened in the midst a woody scene;
Nature's own work it seemed, Nature-taught Art

John Milton

Woody's Quotes #175833
#40. Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #178241
#41. People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.

Scott Ian

Woody's Quotes #181623
#42. If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #184104
#43. Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

Mindy Kaling

Woody's Quotes #202421
#44. We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.

Jill Soloway

Woody's Quotes #214927
#45. We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #221867
#46. The food in this place is really terrible. Yes, and such small portions. That's essentially how I feel about life.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #232836
#47. The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #250407
#48. Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #251285
#49. It had to be the most surreal, embarrassing, awkward moment of his life, standing petrified in his mother's backyard in front of a broken lawn mower, sporting a woody and discussing sex for sale with the landlady.

Linda Kage

Woody's Quotes #260265
#50. I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #261676
#51. Raw food is the best way to have the cleanest energy. We take so much care about what kind of fuel we put in our car, what kind of oil. We care about that sometimes more than the fuel that we're looking at putting in our bodies. It's cleaner burning fuel.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #262159
#52. Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

Rosanne Cash

Woody's Quotes #269405
#53. I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

Brett Ratner

Woody's Quotes #272282
#54. If it turns out that there is a God ... the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #275200
#55. I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #275964
#56. In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #276966
#57. I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.

Stephen Merchant

Woody's Quotes #304046
#58. What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

Isaac Mizrahi

Woody's Quotes #310467
#59. Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #310972
#60. In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #318172
#61. My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #321839
#62. I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'

Woody Norris

Woody's Quotes #328352
#63. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #338111
#64. If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #365620
#65. I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.

Jesse Eisenberg

Woody's Quotes #368629
#66. I've always been interested in being in other people's movies. I never get any offers.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #373364
#67. I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

Douglas Wood

Woody's Quotes #385763
#68. Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #414241
#69. No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #419347
#70. Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #423683
#71. Life's hard, then you die.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #429099
#72. Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

Michael O'Donoghue

Woody's Quotes #432732
#73. There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #434675
#74. Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #444646
#75. 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

Woody's Quotes #446707
#76. The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #449273
#77. I think it's wonderful to be here. And what a beautiful city you have here.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #452010
#78. Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #458048
#79. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #458869
#80. Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #469010
#81. Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.

Letty Aronson

Woody's Quotes #479664
#82. For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

Brian Cox

Woody's Quotes #486885
#83. I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

Sharon Stone

Woody's Quotes #488248
#84. No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

Mark Rydell

Woody's Quotes #490113
#85. I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is Woody Allen.

Romain Duris

Woody's Quotes #490257
#86. Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.

Woody Harrelson

Woody's Quotes #494046
#87. It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home

Woody Guthrie

Woody's Quotes #504234
#88. I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #508503
#89. People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

Spike Lee

Woody's Quotes #509232
#90. 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

Woody's Quotes #515264
#91. 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

Woody's Quotes #515721
#92. 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

Woody's Quotes #517238
#93. I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

Marc Maron

Woody's Quotes #527266
#94. I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

Woody Norris

Woody's Quotes #530032
#95. Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #531947
#96. The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #537826
#97. I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Antony Sher

Woody's Quotes #541172
#98. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #541509
#99. All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Woody Guthrie

Woody's Quotes #541762
#100. There's a snake in my butt!

Woody Allen

Woody's Quotes #553153

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