Woody Allen (b. 1935)

Woody Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater, and has published several short stories, a novel, and a memoir. Allen has received many accolades, including the most nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

Quotes

Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing ; between 5 it's fantastic ...
Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE

Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?
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.
Miscellaneous methods of Civil Disobedience:
Standing in front of City Hall and chanting the word 'pudding' until one's demands are met.
Phoning members of the 'establishment' and singing 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now' into the phone.
Dressing as a policeman and then skipping.
Pretending to be an artichoke but punching people as they pass.
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I don't want to become immortal through my work, I want to become immortal through not dying.
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
The wicked at heart probably know something.
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
My Lord, my Lord! What hast Thou done, lately?
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job.
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead.

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