Woody Quotes

• Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!

  Billy Joe Shaver

  Fans, Band, Heard

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• If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheism, Positive Atheism, Ifs

  Independent, February 18, 1989.

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• Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

  Mel Brooks

  Genius, Steps, Poetic

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• I don't mind that if I ever star in movies, they'll likely be mine. That's okay, because my great role models - Woody Allen, even Tyler Perry, who is actually one of my role models, even if that seems kind of strange - they do that themselves. And it's great. They build empires, and they're known as having their own voice. I think it's 20 times more fun to act on a set where I feel the freedom to change the dialogue.

  Mindy Kaling

  Stars, Fun, Thinking

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.

  Antonio Banderas

  Talking, People, Personality

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk the Expendables 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

  Radha Mitchell

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

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• But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.

  Radha Mitchell

  Australia, Phones, Cells

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• Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.

  Cate Blanchett

  Emotional, Cash, Clubs

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk the Monuments Men". Press conference, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

  John Milton

  Views, Theatre, Cedars

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.244

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• I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Firsts, Nervous

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.

  Ellen Goodman

  Friday, Father, Writing

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• I don't know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37, which is when you realize you're no longer 24. So in walked Woody, who was instantly great, but offstage, it was [all] testosterone. We'll arm-wrestle. I still have, like, tendinitis in my elbow. Woody cleaned everybody's clock in everything. Then we got less physical and went to chess, and he whipped our asses with chess.

  Ted Danson

  Elbows, Arms, Chess

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I've worked with Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks. I've worked with some really good directors: Woody Allen, Paul Schrader... My God, I've really worked with a lot of people. But I'm intimidated by them, and I'm always thinking, "Oh, my God, he's not going to like me, and I'm going to get fired."

  Kurt Fuller

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Lakes, Surprise

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• Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

  Corey Stoll

  New York, Born, Snob

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• I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

  Charlie Rose

  Jobs, Two, Long

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• I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, Teenager, Men

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• [In] 2010, Woody Allen said that he felt Barack Obama should be a dictator so that he could get things done, and the first thing obviously that Woody Allen wanted done is to make it legal to have sex with stepdaughters.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Sex, Firsts, Done

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I like to see people put themselves into films, which is part of the reason why I love Woody Allen films so much - I believe his actors' work. I have a feeling that many actors in his films are similar to their characters, and I like that.

  Dito Montiel

  Believe, Character, People

  "Interview: Dito Montiel Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

  Stevie Smith

  Flower, Tree, Trying

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• There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Country, Air, Wind

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

  Robert B. Weide

  Quirky, Answers, Surprise

  "Director Robert Weide Talks WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and His Kurt Vonnegut Documentary". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

  Radha Mitchell

  New York, Character, Stories

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• You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

  Bob Dylan

  Choices, Musical, Church

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Song, Writing, Bob

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