I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life.... Portraiture may be all right for a man in his you...th, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the colour-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alvy Singer: I've gotta see a picture exactly from the start to finish, 'cause, 'cause I'm anal. Annie Hall: That's a polite ...word for what you are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alvy Singer: You look like a really happy couple. Are you? Woman on Street: Yeah.... Alvy Singer: Yeah? So how do you account for it? Woman on Street: I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say. Man on Street: And I'm exactly the same way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alvy's psychiatrist: How often do you sleep together? Annie's psychiatrist: Do you have sex often?... Alvy Singer: Hardly ever. Maybe three times a week. Annie Hall: Constantly! I'd say three times a week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Annie Hall: Well, la-de-da! Alvy Singer: La-de-da. If I, if anyone had ever told me that I would be taking out a girl who use...d expressions like "la-de-da."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rob: Max, if we lived in California, we could play outdoors every day, in the sun. Alvy Singer: Sun is bad for you. Everythin...g our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat, college.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best ...I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the ro...pe having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »