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Manhattan (film) Quotes

Manhattan (film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Manhattan completed its run in 1970.

It features Charles H. Joffe as producer, George Gershwin in charge of musical score, and Gordon Willis as head of cinematography.

Manhattan (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Manhattan (film) is 96 minutes long. Manhattan (film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Woody Allen as Isaac Davis, Michael Murphy as Yale, Diane Keaton as Mary Wilke, Mariel Hemingway as Tracy, Karen Ludwig as Connie, Meryl Streep as Jill, Meryl Streep as Willie Davis, and Wallace Shawn as Jeremiah.

Manhattan (film) Quotes

Diane Keaton as Mary Wilke

  • (Diane Keaton) "I was tired of submerging my identity to a very brilliant, dominating man. He's a genius."
  • (Woody Allen) "Oh really, he was a genius, Helen's a genius and Dennis is a genius. You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something."
  • (Diane Keaton) "I'm honest, whaddya want? I say what's on my mind and, if you can't take it, well then f*** off."
  • (Woody Allen) "And I like the way you express yourself too, y'know, it's pithy yet degenerate. You get many dates?"
  • (Diane Keaton) ""He was given to fits of rage, Jewish liberal paranoia, male chauvinism, self-righteous misanthropy, and nihilistic moods of despair. He had complaints about life but never any solutions. He longed to be an artist but balked at the necessary sacrifices. In his most private moments, he spoke of his fear of death, which he elevated to tragic heights when in fact it was mere narcissism.""
  • (Diane Keaton) "Facts?I got a million facts at my fingertips."
  • (Woody Allen) "That's right, and they don't mean a thing, right? Because nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Everything really valuable has to enter you through a different opening, if you'll forgive the disgusting imagery."
  • (Diane Keaton) "What are you thinking?"
  • (Woody Allen) "I dunno, I was just thinking. There must be something wrong with me, because I've never had a relationship with a woman that's lasted longer than the one between Hitler and Eva Braun."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Don't psychoanalyze me. I pay a doctor for that."
  • (Woody Allen) "Hey, you call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don't get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone?"
  • (Diane Keaton) "All right, so he's unorthodox. He's a highly qualified doctor."
  • (Woody Allen) "He's done a great job on you, y'know. Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Isn't it beautiful out?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Yeah, it's really so pretty when the light starts to come up."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Yeah, I know. I love it."
  • (Woody Allen) "Boy, this is really a great city, I don't care what anybody s-s; it's really a knock-out, you know?"
  • (Diane Keaton) "I guess I should straighten my life out, huh? I mean, Donnie my analyst is always telling me --"
  • (Woody Allen) "You call your analyst Donnie?"
  • (Diane Keaton) "Yeah, I call him Donnie."
  • (Woody Allen) "Donnie, your analyst? I call mine Dr. Chomsky, y'know, he hits me with a ruler."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Well tell me, why did you get a divorce?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Why? I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Really? God, that must have been really demoralizing."
  • (Woody Allen) "Well, I dunno, I thought I took it rather well under the circumstances. I tried to run them both over with a car."

Woody Allen as Isaac Davis

  • (Woody Allen) "You honestly think that I tried to run you over?"
  • (Karen Ludwig) "You just happened to hit the gas as I walked in front of the car?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Did I do it on purpose?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Well, what would Freud say?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Freud would say I really wanted to run her over, that's why he was a genius."
  • (Woody Allen) "So what does, what does your analyst say? I mean, did you speak to him?"
  • (Diane Keaton) "Well, Donnie's in a coma, he had a very bad acid experience."
  • (Woody Allen) "I can't express anger. That's one of the problems I have. I grow a tumor instead."
  • (Party Guest) "Oh,but really biting satire is always better than physical force."
  • (Woody Allen) "No,physical force is always better with Nazis."
  • (Woody Allen) "I give the whole thing -- four weeks. That's it."
  • (Diane Keaton) "I, I can't plan that far in advance."
  • (Woody Allen) "You can't plan four weeks in advance?"
  • (Diane Keaton) "No."
  • (Woody Allen) "What kind of foresight is that?"
  • (Pizzeria Waiter) "Who ordered the green peppers? Was that you? Must've been. Anchovies, sausage, mushrooms, garlic and green peppers."
  • (Woody Allen) "Forgot the coconut."
  • (Woody Allen) "Plus I'll probably have to give my parents less money. It'll kill my father. He's not gonna be able to get as good a seat in the synagogue. He'll be in the back, away from God, far from the action."
  • (Woody Allen) "Don't stare at me with those big eyes. Geez, you look like one of those barefoot kids from Boliva who needs foster parents."
  • (Woody Allen) "I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."
  • (Woody Allen) "This is shaping up like a Noel Coward play. You know, somebody should go out and make some martinis."
  • (Woody Allen) "You certainly fooled me."
  • (Diane Keaton) "What do you mean?"
  • (Woody Allen) "I mean, I was shocked. 'cause that's not what; this is not what I expected."
  • (Diane Keaton) "What did you expect?"
  • (Woody Allen) "I don't know. You said you, you know, you had always led me to; I uh; you said that, that he was a great ladies' man."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Yeah."
  • (Woody Allen) "And that he opened you up sexually --"
  • (Diane Keaton) "So? So?"
  • (Woody Allen) "So I; you know, and then this little homunculus is here."
  • (Woody Allen) "Really? Well, see you know"
  • (Woody Allen) "I, it's, I; It's amazing how subjective all that stuff is."
  • (Woody Allen) "I came here to strangle you."
  • (Woody Allen) "My ex-wife left me for another woman."
  • (Woody Allen) "What are you telling me, that you're going to leave Emily, is this true, and run away with the winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald emotional maturity award?"
  • (Michael Murphy) "Look, I love her, I've always loved her."
  • (Woody Allen) "What kind of crazy friend are you?"
  • (Michael Murphy) "I'm a good friend. I introduced her to you, remember?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Right, what was the point? I don't understand that."
  • (Michael Murphy) "Well, I thought you liked her?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Yes, I do like her, now we both like her."
  • (Michael Murphy) "Yeah, well I liked her first."
  • (Woody Allen) "I liked her first? What are you, six years old? Jeezus."
  • (Michael Murphy) "Look, I thought it was over. I mean, would I have encouraged you to take her out if I still liked her?"
  • (Woody Allen) "So, what, you like her, now you don't like her, then you did like her, you know it's still early, you can change your mind one more time before dinner."
  • (Michael Murphy) "Don't get sarcastic about this. You think I like this?"
  • (Woody Allen) "How long were you going to see her without saying anything to me?"
  • (Michael Murphy) "Don't turn this into one of your big moral issues."
  • (Woody Allen) "You could have said, but all you had to do was call me and talk to me. You know, I'm very understanding. I'd have said no, but you'd have felt honest."
  • (Michael Murphy) "I wanted to tell you about it, I knew it was going to upset you. We had a few innocent meetings."
  • (Woody Allen) "A few? She said one. You guys should get your story straight, you know. Don't you rehearse?"
  • (Michael Murphy) "We met twice for coffee."
  • (Woody Allen) "Hey come off it, she doesn't drink coffee. What'd you do, meet for Sanka? That's not too romantic, you know, it's a little on the geriatric side."
  • (Michael Murphy) "Well, I'm not a saint, okay."
  • (Woody Allen) "But, you're too easy on yourself. Don't you see that? That's your problem, that's your whole problem. You rationalize everything, you're not honest with yourself. You talk about, you want to write a book, but in the end you'd rather buy the Porsche, you know. Or, you cheat a little bit on Emily and you play around the truth a little with me, and next thing you know, you're in front of a Senate committee and you're naming names, you're informing on your friends."
  • (Michael Murphy) "You are so self righteous, you know. We're just people. We're just human beings, you know. You think you're God."
  • (Woody Allen) "I gotta model myself after someone."
  • (Woody Allen) "I think that, under my personal vibrations, I could put her life in some kind of good order."
  • (Michael Murphy) "Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality."
  • (Woody Allen) "Yeah, but I gave her the old college try."
  • (Woody Allen) "When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg Award."
  • (Woody Allen) "The steel cube was brilliant?"
  • (Diane Keaton) "Yes. To me it was very textual, you know what I mean? It was perfectly integrated, and it had a marvelous kind of negative capability. The rest of the stuff downstairs was bulls***."
  • (Woody Allen) "I got a kid, he's being raised by two women at the moment."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Oh, y'know, I mean I think that works. Uh, they made some studies, I read in one of the psychoanalytic quarterlies. You don't need a male, I mean. Two mothers are absolutely fine."
  • (Woody Allen) "Really? Because I always feel very few people survive one mother."
  • (Woody Allen) "She's 17. I'm 42 and she's 17. I'm older than her father, can you believe that? I'm dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father."
  • (Woody Allen) "Why is life worth living? It's a very good question. Um -- Well, There are certain things I guess that make it worthwhile. uh -- Like what -- okay -- um -- For me, uh -- ooh -- I would say -- what, Groucho Marx, to name one thing -- uh -- um -- and Wilie Mays -- and um -- the 2nd movement of the Jupiter Symphony -- and um -- Louis Armstrong, recording of Potato Head Blues -- um -- Swedish movies, naturally -- Sentimental Education by Flaubert -- uh -- Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra -- um -- those incredible Apples and Pears by Cezanne -- uh -- the crabs at Sam Wo's -- uh -- Tracy's face --"
  • (Woody Allen) "It's brown water. I'm paying seven-hundred dollars a month, I got rats with bongos and a, and a frog and I got brown water here."
  • (Woody Allen) "It's an interesting group of people, your friends are."
  • (Diane Keaton) "I know."
  • (Woody Allen) "Like the cast of a Fellini movie."
  • (Woody Allen) "Hit the lights. Go ahead, turn 'em out again. We'll trade fours."
  • (Woody Allen) "Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist""
  • (Woody Allen) "You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win.""

Meryl Streep as Willie Davis

  • (Meryl Streep) "Why can't we have frankfurters?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Because, this is the Russian Tea Room."

Michael Murphy as Yale

  • (Michael Murphy) "You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you."
  • (Diane Keaton) "Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001."
  • (Michael Murphy) "It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography."
  • (Michael Murphy) "You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God."
  • (Woody Allen) "I -- I gotta model myself after someone."

Wallace Shawn as Jeremiah

  • (Wallace Shawn) "I'm going to a synposium on semantics."

Mariel Hemingway as Tracy

  • (Mariel Hemingway) "I'll be back in six months."
  • (Woody Allen) "Six months are you kidding? Six months you're gonna go for?"
  • (Mariel Hemingway) "We've gone this long, well what's six months if we still love each other?"
  • (Woody Allen) "Hey, don't be so mature, okay? I mean, six months is a long time. Six months, you know you're gonna be, you'll be in, in, in, in the th; working in a theater there, you'll be with actors and directors, you kno w you're, you know, you go to rehearsal, and you, you hang out with those people, you have lunch a lot, and, and, before you even know it attachments form and, and, you know, I mean, you, you don't want to be get into that kind a, I mean, you, you'll change. You know, you'll be, you'll be, in six months you'll be a completely different person."
  • (Mariel Hemingway) "Well, don't you want me to have that experience? I mean a while ago you made such a convincing case."
  • (Woody Allen) "Ye, yeah of course I do, you know, but you; you know, you, I mean you, I, I just don't want; that thing about you that I like to change."
  • (Mariel Hemingway) "I've got to make a plane."
  • (Woody Allen) "C'mon, you don't; c'mon. You don't, you don't have to; go."
  • (Mariel Hemingway) "Why couldn't you have brought this up last week? Six months isn't so long. Not everybody gets corrupted. You have to have a little faith in people."
  • (Mariel Hemingway) "Let's fool around. Let's do it some strange way that you've always wanted to, but nobody would do with you."
  • (Mariel Hemingway) "Let's fool around, it'll take your mind off it."
  • (Woody Allen) "Hey, how many times a night can you, how, how often can you make love in an evening?"
  • (Mariel Hemingway) "Well, a lot."
  • (Woody Allen) "Yeah. I can tell, a lot. That's, well, a lot is my favorite number."

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