Sam Taylor-Wood quote: "I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day."

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I ...
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me s...
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from ...
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used t...
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that...
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great thi...
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout ...
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative struct...
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough ar...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalys...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle...
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your ima...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think yo...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman th...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic ...
SAM WOOD

Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
SAM WOOD

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for ch...
SAM WOOD

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To...
SAM WOOD

But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of...
SAM TAYLOR

Now, e-commerce reports to the head of retail.
SAM TAYLOR

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to we...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anasta...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to trea...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let my...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of compositi...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my th...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fant...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to runnin...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knoc...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of p...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hea...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...&...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things ab...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM

You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sand...
VICTORIA WOOD

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason...
NATALIE WOOD

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ...
RON WOOD

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
LANA WOOD

I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep trac...
LANA WOOD

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
LANA WOOD

When I get married it will be for keeps.
NATALIE WOOD

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD

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

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

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri...
NATALIE WOOD

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

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

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human ...
NATALIE WOOD

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life r...
NATALIE WOOD

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD

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

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

The constant attention is what is so difficult.
NATALIE WOOD

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

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

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie t...
NATALIE WOOD

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

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

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the tr...
NATALIE WOOD

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

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

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

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

We were descended from royalty.
NATALIE WOOD

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that int...
JAKE WOOD

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
ELIJAH WOOD

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and...
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrate...
BEATRICE WOOD

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
BEATRICE WOOD

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
BEATRICE WOOD

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which does...
BEATRICE WOOD

I'm not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
BEATRICE WOOD

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca...
BEATRICE WOOD

Sex is energy.
BEATRICE WOOD

I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
BEATRICE WOOD

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on...
BEATRICE WOOD

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artis...
ED WOOD

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now...
ED WOOD

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
ED WOOD

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
ED WOOD

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he ...
ED WOOD

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
ED WOOD

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
ED WOOD

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
ED WOOD

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens o...
ED WOOD

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
ED WOOD

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
ED WOOD

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of ...
RON WOOD

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was...
WOOD HARRIS

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD

We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a m...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
ALASTAIR WOOD

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more produc...
ALASTAIR WOOD

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
ALASTAIR WOOD

A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudic...
ALASTAIR WOOD

and that risk is not trivial.
ALASTAIR WOOD

There's no evidence they are a good value,
ALASTAIR WOOD

It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD

I think that he did a very professional job in a very, very precarious time. I don't know if we have...
ALAN WOOD

We won't be seeing anything we haven't seen already this year. The experience we have and the schedu...
ALAN WOOD

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.
ALAN WOOD

The suggestions are not meant to gut any program but to stimulate discussion. I also feel that most ...
ALAN WOOD

We're going to have to whittle it down. I think we can cut harmlessly at first, and then we'll have ...
ALAN WOOD

An awful lot of people are very upset with us, and we've got to do whatever we can to reduce taxes a...
ALAN WOOD

We didn't have enough money so we bought what we could and the Trust for Public Land is raising the ...
ALAN WOOD

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know ...
RON WOOD

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan...
RONNIE WOOD

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!
ELIJAH WOOD

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on...
VICTORIA WOOD

One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that ...
ROBIN WOOD

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
ELIJAH WOOD

I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions agai...
MARYROSE WOOD

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand do...
DAVID WOOD

We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
ELLEN WOOD

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
DON WOOD

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitut...
DIANE WOOD

I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederat...
CHRIS WOOD

I did a lot of musicals growing up.
CHRIS WOOD

I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get...
CHRIS WOOD

I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough m...
CHRIS WOOD

It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do...
CHRIS WOOD

When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlant...
CHRIS WOOD

I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routin...
CHRIS WOOD

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after ...
CHRIS WOOD

If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a...
CHRIS WOOD

I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and ...
CHRIS WOOD

I only hope that people understand that if I've just come from the gym or am fresh off a red-eye...
CHRIS WOOD

I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor...
CHRIS WOOD

I studied religions and all kinds of other things in college. I took a Shakespearean villain course ...
CHRIS WOOD

I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with ...
CHRIS WOOD

I drink regular pour-over coffee, black. It's all about the beans. I'm always stocked at hom...
CHRIS WOOD

I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my...
CHRIS WOOD

Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to...
CHRIS WOOD

I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City,...
CHRIS WOOD

Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tic...
CHRIS WOOD

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
CHRIS WOOD

The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, ...
CHRIS WOOD

Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where y...
CHRIS WOOD

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.
CHRIS WOOD

If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach m...
CHRIS WOOD

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react ...
CHRIS WOOD

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ...
ELIJAH WOOD

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that yo...
NATALIE WOOD

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on con...
BEATRICE WOOD

And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Y...
BEATRICE WOOD

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

In the face of aggressive competition from Motorola, Samsung, LG and Siemens this is going ot be a c...
BEN WOOD

You're definitely looking at single digit margins, but Motorola will use the ultra low tier to attra...
BEN WOOD

The Rokr was kind of a disappointment. You hear a song, go home, find it on iTunes, connect your pho...
BEN WOOD

I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

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