- Woody has a life-size bronze statue in Oviedo (Spain) due to the Prince of Asturias arts prize he won in 2002.
- Trade Mark: His films are almost all set in New York City.
- Trade Mark: Nearly all of his films start and end with white-on-black credits, set in the Windsor typeface, set to jazz music, without any scrolling.
- Trade Mark: He frequently casts himself, Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow and Alan Alda.
- Trade Mark: He frequently plays a neurotic New Yorker.
- He's one of the most prolific directors of all time, averaging almost a film a year since his directorial debut in 1966.
- Woody graduated from Midwood High School at Brooklyn College.
- He's the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg.
- He has been nominated or won 136 awards, more than Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd combined.
- Woody was born at 10:55 PM EST.
- Woody adopted his second daughter, Manzie Tio Allen, after she was born in Texas. She is named after Manzie Johnson, a drummer with Sidney Bechet's band (jazz clarinetist).
- Woody frequently hires Dick Hyman, the musical director, to adapt classic American songs and jazz works into his films.
- Trade Mark: His thick black glasses, the same type since the 60s.
- Trade Mark: His films often include 2 female personality traits: one a spontaneous, energetic, offbeat artist and the other a motherly care-giver type...... and Woody (or his main male character) will have to chose between the two.
- Trade Mark: He often makes films about a director making films, casts himself in lead role.
- Trade Mark: A lot of his movies feature at least one character who is a writer. This is often Woody himself.
- He's an atheist.
- Woody got married with Soon-Yi Previn on December 22, 1997. They have two lovely children and still are together nowaday.
- His second spouse was Louise Lasser. They got married on February 2, 1966 and divorced in 1969.
- He made 13 movies with ex-lover Mia Farrow, with who he had three children, 2 adopted and one biological.
- He used to date Diane Keaton, with who he made 8 movies.
- As a Venice lover, he helped raising funds to rebuild the venetian theater, La Fenice, which was destroyed by a fire.
- Woody was chosen as the 89th Sexiest Stars in Film History by Empire Magazine in 1995.
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) is his favorite movie out of his own.
- Woody is a longtime fan of the NBA's New York Knicks and buys a season ticket every year.
- He's of Austro-Jewish descent and Russo-Jewish descent.
- Woody ranked #4 among Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Standups of All Time.
- The first time Woody attended the Cannes Film Festival was in 2002. He received the Palm of Palms Award for Lifetime Achievement.
- His biggest idols include Ingmar Bergman, Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini, Cole Porter, and Anton Chekhov.
- His first spouse was Harlene Rosen. They got married on March 15, 1956 and divorced in 1962.
- He's 5'5" tall.
- Woody has his look-alike puppet in the French show Guignols de l'info, Les (1988).
- Woody has been nominated or won 136 awards, more than Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd combined.
- Woody was voted the 19th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
- He is the brother of Letty Aronson.
- He was suspended from New York University.
- Woody Allen refuses to watch any of his movies once released.
- Woody Allen speaks French.
- Woody Allen: If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen: The biggest flaw in being self-taught is there are gaps. You self-teach yourself something and you think you know something fairly well, but then there are gaps a university teacher would have taught you as part of a mandatory program. I would probably have been better off if I'd got a better general education, but I was just so bored.
- Woody Allen: 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.
- Woody Allen: I was thrown out of NYU (New York University) for cheating on my Metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- Woody Allen: For me, being famous didn't help me that much. It helped a little. Warren Beatty once said to me many years ago, being a star is like being in a whorehouse with a credit card, and I never found that. For me, it was like being in a whorehouse with a credit card that had expired.
- Woody Allen: I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.
- Woody Allen: I wasn't away. And I'm not back. "Match Point" was a film about luck, and it was a very lucky film for me. I did it the way I do all my pictures, and it just worked. I needed a rainy day, I got a rainy day. I needed sun, I got sun. Kate Winslet dropped out at the last moment because she wanted to be with her family, and Scarlett Johansson was available on two days' notice. It's like I couldn't ruin this picture no matter how hard I tried.
- Woody Allen: Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen: 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: It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
- Woody Allen: It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
- Woody Allen: Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
- Woody Allen: Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen: My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
- Woody Allen: On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
- Woody Allen: Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
- Woody Allen: Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
- Woody Allen: The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
- Woody Allen: Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought--particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
- Woody Allen: If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
- Woody Allen: I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
- Woody Allen: I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- Woody Allen: I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen: I am at two with nature.
- Woody Allen: Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen: There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen: Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
- Woody Allen: What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen: When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen: Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
- Woody Allen: You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
- Woody Allen: It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
