Woody Allen Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

• 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

• Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Two, Wow

• Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Believe, Meat

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

• My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Children, Middle Child

• Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Autumn, Night

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

• Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Mother, Dog

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

• When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Mother, Divorce

• 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.

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