Woody Allen Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

• His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

  Woody Allen

  Education, Book, Beer

• I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Funny Life, Hate

• When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Reality, Differences

• 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)

• You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Thinking, Dentist

• I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

  Woody Allen

  Crazy, Believe, Reality

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

• Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, World, May

• I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Punishment, Issues

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

• I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Imagination, Mind

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

• Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Cynicism, Spelling

• I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Home

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

• I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Emotional, Thinking

• I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Years, Magic

• Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And you never have to meet the test of reality when you're writing.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Mean, Reality

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

• I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

  Woody Allen

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

• I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world. Or in Louis Armstrong's world. Or in the world of the New York Knicks. Because it's not this world. You spend your whole life searching for a way out. You just get an overdose of reality, you know, and it's a terrible thing. I'm always fighting against reality.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Fighting, Reality

• 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

• Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Seductive, Fantasy

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

• I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies.

  Woody Allen

  Stars, Reality, Larger Than Life

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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