Woody Allen once said his one regret in life is that he wasn't someone else. Now he suggests he was half kidding.
Given his druthers, he said, "I would rather be Marlon Brando or Louis Armstrong . . . a great pianist or something.""I think that being funny is not anyone's first choice," the comic actor and director said in an interview in Monday's New York Newsday.
"If I could have come from a different background, I might have started off with deeper goals and maybe achieved some of them earlier in life and at this point in my life be doing a lot better than I'm doing - doing deeper work or better work," the 56-year-old Allen said.