The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.
Woody AllenYou can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.
Woody AllenStanding in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.
Woody AllenFor the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
Woody AllenI think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.
Woody Allen