Woody Allen Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Money

  New Yorker, 5 Nov. 1973

• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

• I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.

  Woody Allen

  Two, Giving, Trying

• Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Sports, Religious

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

• Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Giving Up, Names

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Cancer, Giving, Smoking

• Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."

  Woody Allen

  Giving, Advice, Ends

  "Reminiscences: Places And People". www.newyorker.com. December 29, 1975.

• While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

  Woody Allen

  Teacher, Giving, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Clifford Stern". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

• I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Giving, Analysts

• What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

  Woody Allen

  Light, Average, Giving

• I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Writing, Years

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

• Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

  Woody Allen

  Brother, Symphony, Giving

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

• For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

  Woody Allen

  People, Giving, Actors

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

• I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

  Woody Allen

  Emotional, Giving, Goes On

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

• 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

  Reality, Artist, People

• Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Children, Self

  "Woody Allen Speaks Out". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

• No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

  Woody Allen

  People, Giving, Care

• If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Giving, Film

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

• I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Long, People

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

• I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are completely transported into an escapist situation. The women are beautiful, the men are witty and heroic, nobody has terrible problems and this is a delightful escapist thing, and you leave the theater refreshed.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Witty, Dark

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

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