Woody Allen - Quodid

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Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning more than seven decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. As a screenwriter, Allen holds the record of most wins (3) and nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In addition to his four Academy Awards, he has also received numerous other accolades, including ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. He received 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 from Woody Allen

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

fear risk danger sleep

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

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

death immortality

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

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

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

death boredom insurance

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore to be happy one must love or love to suffer. Or suffer from too much happiness.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

space comfort finiteness

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

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

I am at two with nature.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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