Natalie Wood Quotes
"I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Movies, Dawn, Magic)
"I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Thought, Right)
"I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Home, Film, Stars)
"I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Old)
"I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Children)
"I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Hell)
"I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Mother)
"From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything."
- Natalie Wood
"For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Life, Time, Baby, First, Reality, Security)
"At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Night, Sea, Sky, Space, Stars)
"Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Love, Growing up, Man, Wrong)
"A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor."
- Natalie Wood
"If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Work)
"I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Gods, Guilt, Parents)
"Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Sister, Children, Mind, Nothing, Now, Right, Visit, Wonder)
"My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Truth, Friends)
"My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Mother)
"I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Water)
"I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: People)
"I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Money)
"Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Acting, Being, Reason)
"The constant attention is what is so difficult."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Attention)
"The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Time, Baby, Man, Woman)
"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Right)
"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Actors, Stars, Want)
"When I get married it will be for keeps."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Will)
"Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself."
- Natalie Wood
"Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Friends)
"We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh."
- Natalie Wood
"We were descended from royalty."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Royalty)
"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Actor, Relationships, Today)