[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!
Woody AllenI don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.
Woody AllenAnother good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody AllenI don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff... I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.
Woody Allen