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WOODY ALLEN
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens

Early Life
He was born as Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1st, 1935 in The Bronx and raised in Midwood Brooklyn His grandparents were immigrants from Russia and Austria Allen has a sister, Letty, who was born in 1943

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib

Comedy
He started out with Comedy at 17 years old At the age of 19, he started writing scripts for The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, Caesar's Hour and other TV shows In 1961, he started a new career as a stand-up comedian, debuting in a Greenwich Village club called the Duplex.
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue

Playwright
He also became a successful Broadway playwright and wrote Don't Drink the Water He has contributed to many projects as either writer, director, actor, or a combination of the three

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Women
Harlene Rosen

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats

Louise Lasser

Women
Diane Keaton

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker

Soon-Yi Previn

Films
Bananas, 1971 Manhattan, 1979 Zelig, 1983 Everyone Says I Love You, 1996 The Magic of Fellini, 2002 Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 2008 To Rome with Love, 2012
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up

Psychoanalysis
Allen spent over 37 years undergoing psychoanalysis

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

His fears include insects, sunshine, dogs, cancer and death

Curiosity

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all

He plays clarinet and took his stage name from the clarinetist Woody Herman He speaks French He won 136 awards He wont let films be edited for airlines