Woody Allen Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Marriage, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Scrolls" (1975) See Bible 167

• Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Sleep, Lambs

• It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Reality, People

  "Cloud In the Silver Lining" by David Segal, www.washingtonpost.com. July 26, 2006.

• Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Death, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

• If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Ideas, Choices

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

• This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Boys, Views

  YouTube Chanel "filmfestivals.com"/ "Woody Allen on life", www.youtube.com. May 17, 2010.

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