You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art, because it's real difficult in life.
Alvy Singer
Woody Allen · 79 quotes
Annie Hall
Diane Keaton · 27 quotes
Rob
Tony Roberts · 3 quotes
Robin
Janet Margolin · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Alvy Singer & Annie Hall (24), Alvy Singer & Rob (3), Alvy Singer & Robin (3)
Annie Hall quotes
Page 4 of 6I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my mother, who was an emotionally high-strung woman, locked herself in the bathroom and took an overdose of Mah-Jongg tiles. I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis. I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss.
Oh that's OK, we can walk to the curb from here!
They did not take me in the Army. I was, um, interestingly enough, I was, I was 4-P. Yes. In the, in the event of war, I'm a hostage.
[to Annie]
Don't you have a can of Raid in the house? I told you a thousand times. You should always keep a lot of insect spray. You never know who's gonna crawl over.
Darling, I've been killing spiders since I was thirty, OK?
What did you do? Grow up in a Norman Rockwell painting? Your Grammy?
I'm making excellent progress. Pretty soon, when I lie down on his couch, I won't have to wear the lobster bib.
What? Are we driving through plutonium?
Yeah, you're really popular - I can see. What, you got the plague of something?
She's a 10, Max, and that's great for you because you're - you're used to two's, aren't you?
The incredible thing about it is, I'm paying for her analysis and she's making progress, and I'm getting screwed...It's absurd. She's making progress and I'm not making any progress. And her progress is killing my progress.
I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics.
You know, I don't think I could take a mellow evening because I - I don't respond well to mellow. You know what I mean? I have a tendency to - if I get too mellow, I - I ripen and then rot, you know.
The failure of the country to get behind New York City is Anti-Semitism.
Max, the city is terribly run.
But I'm not discussing politics or economics. This is foreskin.
No, no, Max. That's a very convenient out. Every time some group disagrees with you, it's because of Anti-Semitism.
Don't you see? The rest of the country looks upon New York like we're Left-Wing, Communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers. I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.