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Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: 12-1-1935
Birth Name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Woody Allen was born on December 1, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he started selling one-liners to gossip columns. After working a while as a stand up comedian, he was hired to write What's New, Pussycat (1965) in 1965. He directed his first film a year later, What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) in 1966.

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September 12, 2007
Wednesday 12 September 2007 on CTV

We talk with Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell on the red carpet for their film Cassandra's Dream ; we chat with Brian Melo, the winner of Canadian Idol .

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Woody has a life-size bronze statue in Oviedo (Spain) due to the Prince of Asturias arts prize he won in 2002. (edit)
Trade Mark: His films are almost all set in New York City. (edit)
Trade Mark: Nearly all of his films start and end with white-on-black credits, set in the Windsor typeface, set to jazz music, without any scrolling. (edit)
Trade Mark: He frequently casts himself, Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow and Alan Alda. (edit)
Trade Mark: He frequently plays a neurotic New Yorker. (edit)

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Woody Allen: If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. (edit)
Woody Allen: The biggest flaw in being self-taught is there are gaps. You self-teach yourself something and you think you know something fairly well, but then there are gaps a university teacher would have taught you as part of a mandatory program. I would probably have been better off if I'd got a better general education, but I was just so bored. (edit)
Woody Allen: Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. (edit)
Woody Allen: I was thrown out of NYU (New York University) for cheating on my Metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. (edit)
Woody Allen: For me, being famous didn't help me that much. It helped a little. Warren Beatty once said to me many years ago, being a star is like being in a whorehouse with a credit card, and I never found that. For me, it was like being in a whorehouse with a credit card that had expired. (edit)
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