Natalie Wood Quotes
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Let's get it done. Let's get it done right.
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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
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Nobody told me whom I should date when I was a teenager. It wouldn't have worked anyway. I was very rebellious in those days.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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You know what I want? I want yesterday.
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People had told me what to do all my life, and now I as expected to function as an adult woman.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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Studio changed my name, and my screen name is . I am collecting all my publicity.
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My mother never got to know the neighbors. She had no sense of community.
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I just had the most boring evening. Please don't let me do that again. I can't sit through those Warner Brothers things.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you. Then you can sit back and be a lady.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I've decided to go on instinct a lot, rather than following a lot of advice.
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It was like we were playing house with play money. And when it ran out, that was it.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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I went through so many different emotions, seeing the place where my parents were born, viewing all the things I'd read about.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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It was a mystery to me. I loved my husband, we were healthy, we were desirable according to the press, but all I felt was torment.
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It looks so dark down there, and I'm scared of fish. I sort of thought when the boat went along, the fish would swim away from it.
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There's a scene where I imply that I've sort of been around, that I'm not really pure.
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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.
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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I was only 8 years old, but I remember very clearly that at Fox, they were doing many, many pictures.
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I was in my hotel room, crying my eyes out.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I loved the feeling of beginning at the beginning and going through to the end.
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I've always been terrified, still am, of water -- dark water or sea water, or river water or whatever.
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I spent practically all my time in the company of adults. I was very withdrawn, very shy, I did what I was told and I tried not to disappoint anybody. I knew I had a duty to perform, and I was trained to follow orders.
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I don't want to hurt my mother, but I want to stop hurting.
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I was in labor, but the baby wasn't falling. I was so scared. And physically, I was a wreck.
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As a person, one thinks of oneself.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I had to have two years of just living.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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I really didn't know what pleased me. I sort of had to figure all that out.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I don't know how to make endless decisions any more. Richard assumes most of the burdens that were once mine.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
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I had no conception about money whatsoever. I just knew that whenever I got a part I got a present.
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Emotion memory is recalling something sad when you have a sad scene to do. Very early on I used to get myself in the right mood by thinking of a pet dog that died.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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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.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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I was thrilled to discover that I didn't have the need to work.
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Elvis was so square, we'd go . . . for hot fudge sundaes. He didn't drink, he didn't swear, he didn't even smoke. It was like having the date that I never had in high school.
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I was small and skinny and wore quite a bit of lipstick and tried to look much older.
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I had never thought about furniture and things like that. All I'd thought about was acting.
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I don't need work as a security blanket any more.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I would want my children to be unafraid and feel free enough to express themselves.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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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.
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The studio wanted me to stay looking young. That was the image.
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I couldn't stand it any more. I got my parents to sit down and I told them how funny it felt to be different from the other kids.
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
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I didn't feel synthetic, but a lot of the stories were made up... there was so much invention.
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I always cherished that early marriage of ours. My memories of it were beautiful, and sad.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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How do you expect me to be normal when I learned that the most attention I could get was the harder I cried?
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I hadn't been around anyone who was religious. Elvis felt he had been given this gift, this talent, by God. He didn't take it for granted.
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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.
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I was driving way too fast in my desire to get home, and I got into a terrible car crash.
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The marriage sank like a ship going down for the last time.
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If there were no publicity and acting was your only job, I don't think anybody would get into very much emotional trouble.
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I want to contribute something of myself.
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I didn't know how I would feel, coming back to work after having not worked for two years. What if I forgot how to do it?
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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In so many ways I think it's a bore to be sorry you were a child actor - so many people feel sorry for you automatically. At the time I wasn't aware of the things I missed, so why should I think of them in retrospect? Everybody misses something or other.
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