Husbands and Wives Quotes

Husbands and Wives is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Husbands and Wives ended its run in 1970.

It features Robert Greenhut as producer, and Carlo Di Palma as head of cinematography.

Husbands and Wives is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Husbands and Wives is 103 minutes long. Husbands and Wives is distributed by TriStar Pictures.

The cast includes: Woody Allen as Gabe Roth, Woody Allen as Gabe, Mia Farrow as Judy, Judy Davis as Sally, Juliette Lewis as Rain, Timothy Jerome as Paul, Lysette Anthony as Sam, and Mia Farrow as Judy Roth.

Husbands and Wives Quotes

Woody Allen as Gabe

• (Woody Allen) "Can I go? Is this over?"

• (TV Scientist) "Einstein was then celebrating, uh, the seventieth birthday anniversary and there was a colloquium given for him. And he said, "God doesn't play dice with the universe"."
• (Woody Allen) "No. He just plays hide-and-seek."

• (Woody Allen) "Change equals death."
• (Mia Farrow) "What kind of bulls***? That's just a bulls*** line. Maybe you fool your twenty-year-old students into thinking that's some kind of a, an insight or something, but it means nothing. Change is what life is made of. Change; if you don't change, you don't grow, you just shrivel up."

• (Woody Allen) "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

• (Woody Allen) "Boy, I'd hate to be your boyfriend. He must go through hell."
• (Juliette Lewis) "Well, I'm worth it."

• (Woody Allen) "I do not flirt."
• (Mia Farrow) "Don't tell me you don't flirt because I've seen you do it, at parties, you put on a whole other personality."
• (Woody Allen) "Oh you're crazy."
• (Mia Farrow) "Of course you do. You get all soulful and pretend to want things that you really can't stand."
• (Woody Allen) "Like what? What are you talking about?"
• (Mia Farrow) "Like moving to Europe. That's just a flirting technique, you couldn't survive off the island of Manhattan for more than 48 hours."

• (Woody Allen) "What happened after the honeymoon? Did desire grow or did familiarity make partners want other lovers? Was the notion of ever-deepening romance a myth along with simultaneous orgasm? The only time Rifkin and his wife experienced one was when they were granted their divorce. Maybe in the end, the idea was not to expect too much out of life."

• (Woody Allen) "See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them."

• (Woody Allen) "It told him something. How millions of sperm -- competed for a single egg, not the other way around. Men would make love with any number of women -- even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming.: "Let us out, let us out.""

Lysette Anthony as Sam

• (Unnamed) "If astrology were true - --"
• (Lysette Anthony) "It is true. It is totally, totally, totally provable, you know?"
• (Unnamed) "Provable how? From gypsies?"
• (Lysette Anthony) "Well, it's totally logical, right? You know, why wouldn't the position of the planets have an influence on our personalities?"

• (Lysette Anthony) "I used to eat red meat every day and then I gave it up and then I had some again recently and I was totally bloated. I mean, like, really bad."

Judy Davis as Sally

• (Judy Davis) "It was a huge blow to my ego. You know, I thought he loved me, that, uh, that we were experimenting, you know."
• (Interviewer) "But if you had met someone first?"
• (Judy Davis) "Probably right. Probably would have done the same thing."

• (Judy Davis) "It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to s***. That's my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica."

• (Judy Davis) "Don't not support us."

• (Judy Davis) "What can I say? She's me, but she's younger."

• (Judy Davis) "f***ing men. Woman gets to be over a certain age, it becomes a different ballgame."
• (Timothy Jerome) "Oh, no, no - --"
• (Judy Davis) "Don't defend your sex. It's true. You're great 'til you start to show your age; then they want a newer model."

Juliette Lewis as Rain

• (Juliette Lewis) "I spent five days searching for the perfect word to describe the husband and that's when I came up with "apucious"."
• (Woody Allen) "Apucious. I looked it up in the dictionary but I couldn't find it."
• (Juliette Lewis) "Yeah, I know. I made it up."
• (Woody Allen) "Oh, really."
• (Juliette Lewis) "Yeah. I thought it described him perfectly."

• (Juliette Lewis) "I just think that maybe I -- I could've been threatened by certain things in the book."
• (Woody Allen) "Like what, you know?"
• (Juliette Lewis) "Um, some of the attitudes towards women and your ideas on life."
• (Woody Allen) "You told me you love the book."
• (Juliette Lewis) "I do. I do love it, yeah."
• (Woody Allen) "What were your criticisms?"
• (Juliette Lewis) "Um, nothing."
• (Woody Allen) "No, tell me. Tell me what your criticisms were."
• (Juliette Lewis) "I was a little disappointed, I guess, with, ah, with some of your attitudes."
• (Woody Allen) "Like what? What attitudes?"
• (Woody Allen) "With what?"
• (Juliette Lewis) "The way your people just casually have affairs like that, that's --"
• (Woody Allen) "Well, the book doesn't condone affairs. You know, I'm exaggerating for comic purposes."
• (Juliette Lewis) "Yeah, I mean but are our choices really between chronic dissatisfaction and suburban drudgery?"
• (Woody Allen) "No, but, you know, that's how I -- I'm deliberately distorting it, you know, 'cause I'm trying to show how hard it is to be married and --"
• (Juliette Lewis) "Well, you have to be careful not to trivialize with things like that."
• (Woody Allen) "Well, Jesus, I -- I hope I haven't."
• (Juliette Lewis) "Well, the way your -- your lead character views women, it's so retrograde. It's so shallow, you know?"
• (Woody Allen) "What are you talking -- You told me you -- you know, that -- you told me it was a great book."
• (Juliette Lewis) "Yeah, it's wonderful. And I never said great. I said it's brilliant, and it's alive, and -- You know, that's not what I'm -- We're not arguing about whether it's brilliant or not. I'm, you know -- Triumph of the Will was a great movie, but you despise the ideas behind it."
• (Woody Allen) "What -- what are you saying, now? You despise my ideas?"
• (Juliette Lewis) "No, I don't despise them. All right, that -- that example was wrong."
• (Juliette Lewis) "OK, isn't it beneath you as a mature thinker, I mean, to allow your lead character to waste so much of this emotional energy obsessing over this psychotic relationship with a woman that you fantasize as powerfully sexual and inspired when, in fact, she was pitifully sick?"
• (Woody Allen) "Look, let's stop this right now because I don't need a lecture on maturity or writing from a 20-year-old twit."

Mia Farrow as Judy Roth

• (Mia Farrow) "You use sex to express every emotion except love."

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