Woody Allen (b.1935) is an American producer, entertainer, director, Oscar-winner, and screen star whose career spans more than 50 years. He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he insists is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics, while a UK survey ranked Allen as the third greatest comedian.
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Success & Failure, Inaction, Getting Going, Procrastination, Success
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Vice, Goodness, Sleep
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
—Woody Allen
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Fun
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep..
—Woody Allen
Topics: Marriage
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Value of Time, Time Management
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Mistakes, Failures
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Talent, Appreciation, Blessings, Gratitude
In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Revolution
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