"90 per cent of success is turning up."
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Woody Allen quotes (page 31 of 41)
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"I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics."
"Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex."
"Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health."
"American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art."
"I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one."
"You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie."
"The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing."
"If you aren't failing, you aren't trying."
"And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again."
"I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying."
"I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever."
"Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver."
"When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?"
"Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?"
"After 60, all of us belong to the weaker sex."
"There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic."
"Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."
"Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around."
"The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is."