Woody Allen Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

• In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Trying, Sixteen

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

• Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

  Woody Allen

  Maturity, Age, Teeth

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

• I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

  Woody Allen

  Nice, Fall, Thinking

• There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

  Woody Allen

  Real, People, Age

  "Woody Allen Interview – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

• This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Boys, Views

  YouTube Chanel "filmfestivals.com"/ "Woody Allen on life", www.youtube.com. May 17, 2010.

• I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Frightened, Terrible

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

• I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Years, Age

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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