Top 626 Edgar Allen Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.
Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.
I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'
I don't know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.
I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.
I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama.
Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.
While filming 'Annie Hall,' I never really hung out with Woody Allen.
But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I had done a piece for Playboy about J. Edgar Hoover.
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
I'm not a fan of analytics. When I was a kid, I couldn't tell you what percentage Allen Iverson shot, or Michael Jordan.
Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.
I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
The worst gift I have ever gotten on Christmas is going to see Tim Allen in 'The Santa Clause.'
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.
John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.
I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.
Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
I've been watching 'Knives Out,' 'Fight Club' and many Woody Allen films.
Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.
I just don't care what people like Lily Allen think about stuff.
After working with Woody Allen, sharing screen space with De Niro was a dream come true.
Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.
With 'Avatar,' I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys' adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.
I have lots of things that aren't so old that I value, such as a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," which he signed for me.
Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.
Whatever I had to prove in the 'Flash' world about myself as an actor, I proved as Henry Allen.
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.
If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.
Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."
'The Santa Claus' with Tim Allen, I watch it in July. I think he's so funny.
When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.
I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody.
I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.
Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.
She shook her head slowly. “I don’t believe you. You can’t be a cop.” “Not a cop.” “Federal agent?” “FBI.” “Even more unlikely.” “J. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but that’s the way it is.
I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.
I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!
There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.
Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
