Author: Woody Allen

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I've never been an intellectual, but I have this look.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I have an intense desire to return to the womb… anybody's.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille; I used to rub the dirty parts.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille; I used to rub the dirty parts.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Death is an acquired trait.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Sex is nobody's business except the three people involved.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

God is silent; now if only man would shut up.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Oral contraceptive: The word "no."

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I'm what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

My luck is getting worse and worse.. last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Luna: So then, what do you believe in?

Miles: Sex and death – two things that come once in a lifetime… but at least after death, you're not nauseous.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I ran into Isosceles; he has a great idea for a new triangle!

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

[After a fight] Yeah, I’m fine. I snapped my chin down onto some guy’s fist and hit another one in the knee with my nose.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Allan: What are you doing Saturday night?
Museum girl: Committing suicide.
Allan: What about Friday night?

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I haven’t seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I’d been going all this time, I’d probably almost be cured by now.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian