Apropos of Nothing Quotes

“Rather than live on in the hearts and mind of the public, I prefer to live on in my apartment.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“Self-obsession, that treacherous time waster.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“It seemed like I was surrounded by great and wonderful people unstable as uranium.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“It seems to me the only hope for mankind lies in magic. I have always hated reality, but it’s the only place you can get good chicken wings.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“In the end this obsession for conformity leads to fascism.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“But the arguments we had over free will and monads, while heated, were never as combatative as the ones we had over our marriage. I knew I was in trouble when, in one philosophical discussion, Harlene proved I didn’t exist.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“Hell is other people’s taste”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“And I definitely do not want to be on one of those first rockets to outer space, to glimpse Earth from afar and experience weightlessness. The truth is, I hate weightlessness; I am a big fan of gravity and hope it lasts.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“After I’m dead, I suspect very little will get on my nerves, even that annoying noise the neighbors make with their leaf blower.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“She said, "My whole life, I've never been anyone's top priority." I, who had been the top priority of a large, extended family, the apple of many loving eyes, tried to put myself in Soon-Yi's place and decided to make her my top priority. I decided I would dote on her, wait on her, spoil her, celebrate her, never deny her anything she wanted, and somehow try and make up for the horrific first twenty-two years of her life”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner together almost every day. You’d think we’d have long run out of things to say, but as the weather changes all the time, we are never at a loss for conversation.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“I must say, it amazed me how many in my profession caved in like dominoes.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“I was able to liberate Soon-Yi from a terrible situation and provide her with an opportunity to flower and realize her potential, and she would never have to eat a bar of soap or long for a hug or get hit with a phone again.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“I met Tati, who advised me to save my money lest I wind up in the old actor’s home, where he had just come from visiting a friend.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“I just didn’t grasp the finer points and once tipped a process server who knocked on my door and handed me a summons.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“I had no sense of direction. Once, driving on the Sunrise Highway, Harlene said her parents were away and we could go to her house and use the bedroom. Inflamed by the idea, I made a quick U-turn and knocked over a telephone pole.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“There are still loonies who think I married my daughter, who think Soon-Yi was my child, who think Mia was my wife, who think I adopted Soon-Yi, who think that Obama wasn’t American. But there was never any trial. I was never charged with anything, as it was clear to the investigators nothing had ever occurred.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“mean, it makes no sense why a fifty-seven-year-old man who has never been accused of a single impropriety in his life, while in the midst of a contentious and very public custody fight, drives up to the hostile environment of the country home belonging to the woman who hates him most, and in a house full of people sympathetic to her, this man, who is thrilled as he has just recently found the serious love of his life, a woman he’d go on to marry and have a family with, would suddenly choose that time and place to become a child molester and abuse his seven-year-old daughter whom”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“According to Monica, the nanny, she said, “I’ve got him.” The head on the lap would over time somehow metamorphosize into my molesting her in the attic, but that reenactment of Dory Previn’s song scenario would come later.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“Dylan was no longer seven but a grown woman of thirty-plus. Mind you, I have not been allowed to see her, speak to her, or correspond with her for twenty-three years. Everything she has heard about me since barely turning seven has been taught to her by Mia.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“As I gushed earlier, the movie of Streetcar is for me total artistic perfection.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“For the written record in this personal document, let me simply say to me, Groucho Marx, W. C. Fields, and Elaine May are indisputably funny, with S.J. Perelman the funniest human of my time on earth.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“Sophocles said to never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“Like Bertrand Russell, I feel a great sadness for the human race. Unlike Bertrand Russell, I can’t do long division.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“Little did I know—once smeared, always vulnerable.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“They’re all gone. Truffaut, Resnais, Antonioni, De Sica, Kazan. At least Godard is still alive, but he always was a nonconformist”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“To a human, the fall-colored leaves are gorgeous. To a red or yellow leaf, I can guarantee they find the green ones lovelier.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“One of the saddest things of my life was that I was deprived of the years of raising Dylan and could only dream about showing her Manhattan and the joys of Paris and Rome.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing