Hvis man har set nogle af Woody Allen’s sidste filme, så kan man nok trænge til en påmindelse om hans tidlige karriere, hvor han faktisk var en af Amerikas sjoveste komikere.
Groucho Marx, som vi tidligere besøgte, sagde følgende om emnet: ”They say Allen got something from the Marx Brothers. He got nothing. Maybe twenty years ago, he might have been inspired. Today he’s an original. The best, the funniest.”
Citaterne er nok sjovest, hvis man forsøger sig med Allens neurotiske nasale stemme.
“I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot.”
“I remember when I was a little boy, I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.”
“Eternal nothingness is O.K. if you’re dressed for it.”
“Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.”
“I’m not really the heroic type. I was beat up by Quakers.”
“Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.”
“Regarding love… what can you say? It’s not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It’s the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.”
“As the poet said, “Only God can make a tree”—probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”
“It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
“I think that people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.”
“I can’t express anger. That’s my problem. I internalize everything. I just grow a tumor instead.”
“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”
