Joanne Woodward famous quotes

04-17-2025

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Cute Love #Family #Marriage
I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Depressing #Block #School
Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Children #Growing Up #People
Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Sex #Acting #Actors
My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Children #Planets #Grandchildren
When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Christmas #Giving Up #Vivid
There can be no one best way of organizing a business.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Business #Way
I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Risk #Tests
I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Long #Technique #Dubious
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Believe #Awards #Wish
Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Hard Times #Thinking #Careers
My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Daughter #Mother #Monday
An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Voice #Effort #Trying
I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Summer #Thinking #Mind
Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Becoming #Intensity #Young
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Loss #People #Upset
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Important #Neurosis #Sense Of Humor

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