Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.
Woody AllenI should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.
Woody AllenThatโs one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thingโs real, it just lives.
Woody AllenWhen you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, youโre forfeiting your humanity.
Woody AllenThere will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation was, what happens after death. Until those questions are resolved we are caught.
Woody Allen