Woody Allen's Quotes

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

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

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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

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

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

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Marriage is the death of hope.

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If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

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I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

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I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

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I am two with nature.

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I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

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If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

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I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

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