Woody Quotes - Page 2

• I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

  Sharon Stone

  Memories, Real, Speak

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• 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.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Musical, Firsts, Process

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• What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.

  Jim Hightower

  Mother, Kings, People

  "The Lowdown from Hightower" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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• In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

  Ethan Hawke

  New York, Car, Cracks

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• I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Night, Thinking, Guy

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• Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  Steve Earle

  Song, School, Kids

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• The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Successful, Unique, People

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• 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.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Bob, Balls, Reason

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• Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

  Larry David

  Lines, Lasts, Likes

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• For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.

  Penelope Cruz

  Opportunity, Careers, Directors

  "Penelope Cruz Interview BROKEN EMBRACES". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 5, 2009.

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• I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Writing, Years, People

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

  Mary J. Blige

  Life Is, Pears, Notes

  "High Note: Mary J. Blige on Her Best-Selling Perfume". Interview with Janna Johnson, www.elle.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

  Mindy Kaling

  Romantic, Feelings, Looks

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• I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Matter, Film

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• I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Thinking, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.

  Eli Roth

  Different, Way, Comedy

  "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

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

  Emma Roberts

  Roles, Emma, Said

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• From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

  Jason Reitman

  Drama, Dimes, Comedy

  "Jason Reitman to re-create Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' in live reading" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Three, Cash

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• I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

  Sean Penn

  Good Movie, Fans, Matter

  "New Again: Sean Penn". Interview with Melissa Belk, Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• 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.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Taken, Rework

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• Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.

  David Letterman

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

  Spike Lee

  People, Done, Likes

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• We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Butterfly, Rocks, People

  "Anthony Kiedis: Still Red Hot After All These Years". Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, December 2000.

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

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Song

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