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That [sex] was the most fun I ever had without laughing.
Annie Hall (1977 film, with Marshall Brickman)

Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (1972 film)

It was partially my fault that we got divorced....I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
At night-club in Chicago, Mar. 1964, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two (Colpix CP 4) side 1, band 6

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said 'no'.
Woody Allen Volume Two (Colpix CP 4) side 4, band 6

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Death (1975) p. 6

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Without Feathers (1976) 'Early Essays'

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
New Republic 31 Aug. 1974 'The Scrolls'

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Epigraph to Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975)

And my parents finally realize that I’m kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 1

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work- I want to achieve it through not dying.
In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 1

All quotations above by Woody Allen

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
Getting On (1972) act 1
Alan Bennett

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
In George Jean Nathan The Theatre in the Fifties (1953) p. 3
Ethel Barrymore

'Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end,' harrumphed French film maker Georges Franju, 'Certainly,' replied Jean-Luc Godard. 'But not necessarily in that order.'
Time 14 September 1981
Jean-Luc Godard

The words 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968) 'Note on the Title'
Pauline Kael

Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
In Observer 9 September 1956
Sam Goldwyn

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
On the Contrary (1961) 'America the Beautiful'
Mary McCarthy

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
My Autobiography (1964) ch. 10
Charlie Chaplin

An actor is a kind of a guy who if you ain’t talking about him ain’t listening.
In Bob Thomas Brando (1973) ch. 8 (said to be often quoted by Marlon Brando, who is cited as quoting it in Observer 1 Jan. 1956)
George Glass

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
Of Israel Zangwill, in Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4
Sir Herbert Tree

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?
To a man in the street, carrying a grandfather clock, in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm Tree (1956) ch. 1
Sir Herbert Tree

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
When pressed by a gramophone company for a written testimonial, in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm Tree (1956) ch. 1 (when asked to amend the statement, Tree insisted 'the immortalism must stand').
Sir Herbert Tree

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don’t mind.
To a motley collection of females, assembled to play ladies-in-waiting to a queen; in Alexander Woollcott Shouts and Murmurs (1923) 'Capsule Criticism'
Sir Herbert Tree

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
Romanoff and Juliet (1956) act 1
Sir Peter Ustinov

Me Tarzan, you Jane.
Summing up his role in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932 film). The words occur neither in the film nor the original, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Photoplay Magazine June 1932
Johnny

There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education.
Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949) ch. 6
Will Rogers

Smile, it enhances your face value.
Truvy (Dolly Parton) in "Steel Magnolias"
 

Stand up wherever you are, go to the nearest window and yell as loud as you can, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.'
Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in "Network"
 

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in "Dead Poet's Society"

Colonel Jessep (Jack Nicholson): You want answers?
Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I want the truth!
Jessep: You can't handle the truth!
"A Few Good Men"

How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life.
Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
 

Eve (Anne Baxter): I'm afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long.
Miss Caswell (Marilyn Monroe): You won't bore him, honey. You won't even get a chance to talk.
"All About Eve"
 

Michael Corleone (Al Pacino): My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a President or senator.
Kay Adams (Diane Keaton): Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed!
Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?
"The Godfather"

You don't have the sense God gave a donut, do you?
Newspaperman Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn) to Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) in "The Shipping News"
 

Scarlett (Vivien Leigh): Sir, you are no gentleman.
Rhett (Clark Gable): And you Miss, are no lady. Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.
"Gone With The Wind"
 

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
Fabrizio (Angelo Infanti) in "The Godfather"