Quotes about Woody Allen

6 Sourced Quotes

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

Woody Allen says at the end of Annie Hall that we're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's so difficult in real life [...] if we can accept Allen's as a definition of art, then sabermetrics is absolutely an art. And, just as Kalkman notes, it's an art whose practitioners are bent on seeing justice done — in baseball, if nowhere else.

Carson Cistulli

Like Woody Allen said, comedy is tragedy plus time. But mental illness was pretty funny right away.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Christopher Hitchens

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.

And the Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?