Woody Quotes

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

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

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

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

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

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.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.