Woody Allen

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

I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he’s a bit of an underachiever.

Woody Allen

I carry a bullet in my breast pocket. Once, a crazy evangelist threw a bible at me, which would have gone through my heart if it wasn’t for the bullet.

Woody Allen

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I’ve had nothing but good luck. Everything I’ve needed has come my way.

Woody Allen

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

Woody Allen

I didn’t believe in reincarnation in my past life, and I still don’t.

Woody Allen

I didn’t go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.

Woody Allen

I didn’t know he was dead; I thought he was British.

Woody Allen

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Woody Allen

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

Woody Allen