Woody Quotations | Page 2

Back in the early 30s, Woody and Lead Belly were musical cronies. At all the New York folk-song parties of that day - and the guitar picking population of New York at that time consisted of about ten people, if you can believe it - Lead Belly and Woody were the stars. And usually after all of us had decided to go to bed, Woody would go home with Lead Belly and they'd sit up and play until morning.

You would think over the course of a winter -- actually three winters, two winters -- that guys would come back strong and healthy, which hasn't been the case. Woody had a little setback with his knee, but his arm is doing well. He's throwing the ball great. Hopefully, Woody will be ready soon. How soon we don't know. We have Wade Miller coming on pretty strong. We just have to pull our belts a little tighter and do what we have to do.

This tour is such a joy for all of us. Everybody loves Woody Guthrie. Well, everybody should love Woody Guthrie. Woody deserves to be honored, not just for making great music. Woody should be remembered as perhaps the first singer-songwriter. Sure, there was Jimmie Rodgers, but Woody, for all intents and purposes, was the first guy out there singing songs he had written. And he wrote such great songs, which should never be forgotten.

This was an excellent high school game. Josh Berry and Woody Orne had great games.

This is an incredibly rare performance for Woody outside New York City, so we're thrilled to have him.

I'm a fan of Louis C.K., I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.

I have no rules left. I don't have to get on the radio. It's wide open for me. The singer-songwriters I admire - Dylan, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie - move forward all the time.

I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.

I'm ready to do a Woody Allen comedy.

Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'

The next time, we'll bump his up quite a bit. He may be ready to face some hitters and start the program that Woody started a couple weeks ago.

Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

I heard Woody was very promising. He was low- to mid-90s with some of the things he threw. He's not that far off. But I can't speculate on what soon means.

I don't know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.

They would yell everything you saw in the movie and then they'd look back at Woody and go, 'Yeah, Woody, you're the man! We love you Woody!' and then they'd turn back to me, 'Take your top off!'

It was an issue of the Woody Times and had just come in the mail. I saw the picture, read the description and decided to give the seller, who lived in Baltimore, a call.

I remember one of the first things we saw in California was a woman in a fishnet top with no bra. Woody hated California. The state could have fallen in the ocean and he wouldn't have cared. . . . Woody just wanted to kick . . . and go home.

In my real life I'm more of a walking Woody Allen movie. I'm afraid to drive and I can't swim and all that stuff so it is incredibly thrilling and fun to listen to my voice do things that, when it's in my regular body, it would never get to do.

This is a great test for us and a great challenge for the Big 12 and Big Ten conferences. You have to enjoy a game that matches two teams where Woody Hayes and Darrell Royal once coached, and there's a ton of tradition there.

At least we won't finish with a losing record. We want to play good baseball. Woody pitched well. It was a good solid game all around for us.

It's fair to ask about how many pitches I let Woody throw that year and what effect it might have had on him. But the only time people seemed to be upset was when I took him out of the game. That's when I heard it from the fans and when I got asked questions by reporters. Nobody seemed to care when I left him in.

It's kind of a full rock sound based in soul with a little blues. We take a lot of traditional stuff from artists such as Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and give it a bit of an edge. Most of our music is original, but we base it in stuff like that.

I'd love to do more theater in New York City. And I'd love the chance to do a big movie with a great director -- you know, the Coen brothers or Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg, ... I'd love a shot at that.

If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.

I did a movie with Woody Allen ["Hollywood Ending" in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

Sometimes, when things go well on a set, or when you are working with somebody like Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Rob Marshall or somebody so talented and so inspiring, it's really beautiful, what happens there.

The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of Chris Chandler.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ...

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.