Woody Allen Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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

  Mother, Depressing, Time

• I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, New York, Father

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

  Woody Allen

  Cousin, Father, Nice

• My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.

  Woody Allen

  Father, Land, Pieces

• My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.

  Woody Allen

  Hurt, Father, Simple

  "Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

• I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Attitude, Father

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

• I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Children, Father

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