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


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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