Quotes About Natalie Wood

#1. I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Gloria Steinem

#2. Between Two Harbors, Reflections of a Catalina Island Harbormaster, tells of my involvement in the death of Natalie Wood, to the many unique and interesting details of life on Catalina Island.

Doug Oudin

#3. I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

Bharati Mukherjee

#4. I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

Emma Forrest

#5. I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Vanessa Hudgens

#6. Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.

Lana Parrilla

#7. We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

Natalie Wood

#8. When I get married it will be for keeps.

Natalie Wood

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

Natalie Wood

#10. 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

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

Natalie Wood

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

Natalie Wood

#15. 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

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

Natalie Wood

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

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

Natalie Wood

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

Natalie Wood

#20. 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

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

Natalie Wood

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

Natalie Wood

#23. The constant attention is what is so difficult.

Natalie Wood

#24. 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

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

Natalie Wood

#26. We were descended from royalty.

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#27. I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

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#28. I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

Natalie Wood

#29. I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

Natalie Wood

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

Natalie Wood

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

Natalie Wood

#32. 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

#33. For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.

Natalie Babbitt

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

Natalie Wood

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

Natalie Wood

#36. The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

Natalie Wood

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

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#38. 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

#39. 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