"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal."
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Woody Allen quotes (page 24 of 41)
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"The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought."
"Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?"
"It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction."
"There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!"
"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
"Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants."
"The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life."
"Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso."
"Me and nature are two."
"The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion."
"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."
"I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them."
"If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips."
"Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?"
"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
"Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind."
"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."
"I've never been an intellectual but I have this look."
"Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality."