Hannah and Her Sisters Quotes

Context

This famous line is spoken by Mickey, played by Woody Allen, to Holly, played by Dianne Wiest, in Hannah and Her Sisters (directed by Woody Allen, 1986).

Hannah and Her Sisters is about Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her sisters (Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest). Wiest, who would later find Edward Scissorhands in an attic, plays Holly, the neurotic one, a perfect fit for Mickey, Woody Allen's also-neurotic (yes, we know that's redundant) TV exec.

Even though Mickey and Holly end up married in the end (thirty-year-old spoiler alert), their first date didn't go so hot, and Mickey describes it as "a great evening. It was like Nuremberg Trials." (In case you missed it, the Nuremburg Trials weren't fun.)

Where you've heard it

Hannah and Her Sisters is Roger Ebert's favorite Woody Allen film, and this line is known as one of its most famous quotes. 

Also, Mia Farrow would probably say the same thing about her marriage to Allen.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

It's hard not to take anything that comes out of Woody Allen's mouth as less than a six on the pretentious-factor scale.