Woody Allen's BIO Oscar nominee for 'Annie Hall' (1977)
December 1, 1935 (Brooklyn, New York, USA)
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  • Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
  • Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
  • Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
  • More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
  • I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
  • Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never
  • Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
  • How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
  • How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
  • I am at two with nature.
  • On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
  • 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.
  • I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
  • Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
  • Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
  • Eighty percent of success is showing up.
  • Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
  • What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
  • A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
  • Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats.
  • Marriage is the death of hope.
  • It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
  • I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
  • Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
  • I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
  • I am at two with nature.
  • His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
  • Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
  • Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
  • If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
  • My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
  • Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
  • Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
  • On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
  • Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
  • Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
  • Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
  • If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
  • I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.
  • More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.