Woody Quotes

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Sometimes, when things go well on a set, or when you are working with somebody like Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Rob Marshall or somebody so talented and so inspiring, it's really beautiful, what happens there.

I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.

I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

John Logan pretty much does the Woody Allen thing of just bringing people in and meeting them.

I don't know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.

[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.

I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had anything to do with, from I don't know how young. Super young.

I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.

Woody Allen, when we did Vicky Cristina Barcelona, said to Rebecca Hall, "Do it one time happy, one time sad, and one time indifferent, as I won't know where you should be until I'm editing this, in terms of your emotions."

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.

My personal favorite is Woody Allen, who is just amazing as a comedian.

I am defined also by Woody Allen’s films and Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch and Julian Schnabel or Almodóvar, or by Guillermo del Toro, Iñárritu, Cuarón. Even if we haven’t worked with them, we are all defined by their filmography.

I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.

The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of Chris Chandler.

Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.