Natalie Wood famous quotes

03-17-2025

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
-- Natalie Wood

#Love #Girl #Growing Up
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
-- Natalie Wood

#Funny #Success #Hilarious
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
-- Natalie Wood

#Analysis #Transformation #Change Yourself
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

#Children #Thinking
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
-- Natalie Wood

#Mother #Bathroom #Social Worker
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

#Stars #Thinking #Acting
I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
-- Natalie Wood

#Done #Grows
Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
-- Natalie Wood

#Friends #Difficult
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
-- Natalie Wood

#Parent #Suffering #Wish
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

#Friends #Way #Excited
A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
-- Natalie Wood

#Survivor #Natasha #Changed
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

#Water
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
-- Natalie Wood

#Stars #Home #Swimming
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

#Done #Wells
I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
-- Natalie Wood

#Hell #Wanted
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

#Sister #Children #Two
When I get married it will be for keeps.
-- Natalie Wood

#Married
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
-- Natalie Wood

#Copies #Wanted
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
-- Natalie Wood

#Today #Roles #Actors
I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
-- Natalie Wood

#Motherhood #Natasha
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

#Baby #Reality #Emotional
From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
-- Natalie Wood

#Age #Remember
I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
-- Natalie Wood

#Cutting #Rooms #Lines
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

#Money #Cooks
If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
-- Natalie Wood

#Work #Believe #Dimes
There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
-- Natalie Wood

#Stars #Want #Actors
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
-- Natalie Wood

#Morning #Magic #Dawn
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

#Stars #Ocean #Night
My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
-- Natalie Wood

#Mother #Matter #Used
The constant attention is what is so difficult.
-- Natalie Wood

#Attention #Difficult #Constant

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