Natalie Wood

If I didn’t believe in what I’m doing, I’d rather go to work in a dime store.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

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.

I’m just going to have to grow old, because I’m too terrified to have anything done.

The times that I have done something that I didn’t respond to emotionally right away, it’s generally not worked out too well.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm… and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

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.

I didn’t know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

I couldn’t even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I’m a survivor.

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

When I get married it will be for keeps.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don’t think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

I thought it was a wonderful line – right on the cutting room floor.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

We were descended from royalty.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

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.

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

Today’s films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

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.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don’t want to be that type.

I’ve been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I’m forced to go into in on every movie that I make.