Beatrice Wood quote: "You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex."

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

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

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books...
BEATRICE SPARKS

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
BEATRICE DALLE

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself...
BEATRICE WEBB

Religion is love; in no case is it logic
BEATRICE WEBB

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious...
BEATRICE WEBB

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE WEBB

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would ha...
BEATRICE WEBB

Sorry, I don't do resolutions. That's for the simple fact that, whatever I say I'm going to do, I tr...
BEATRICE MONGO

They all seemed pretty happy.
BEATRICE MONGO

We found that one firefighter was considered inactive because he doesn't come to all the meetings, b...
BEATRICE MONGO

The firefighters were very wound up.
BEATRICE MONGO

I have been hearing about this all over town, and not just from the firefighters. This is why you ne...
BEATRICE MONGO

They agreed to return the nomination sheet to me by the first of next week, and we'll put together a...
BEATRICE MONGO

Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, s...
BEATRICE LILLIE

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
BEATRICE LILLIE

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mo...
BEATRICE LILLIE

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense -- adapting one-self ...
BEATRICE LILLIE

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue ot...
BEATRICE HINKLE

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaki...
BEATRICE HINKLE

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an indivi...
BEATRICE HINKLE

When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed...
BEATRICE HINKLE

The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that w...
BEATRICE HINKLE

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was use...
BEATRICE DALLE

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be some...
BEATRICE DALLE

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't tr...
BEATRICE DALLE

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
BEATRICE DALLE

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who d...
BEATRICE DALLE

My vagina can't give a monologue!
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I'm really not an invalid.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

When something is written for the stage, I think it's wrong to try to make it bigger. Very few thing...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything el...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing s...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

Lucy was lovely.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me beca...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the wa...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and w...
BEATRICE DALLE

The water flow has fallen by 200 cubic meters per second. This is a success.
BEATRICE POPESCU

It's good we have started running as a team. This encourages other athletes to improve their perform...
BEATRICE AYIKORU

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming fo...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

From your mouth to God's ears.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places m...
BEATRICE SPARKS

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to a...
BEATRICE WEBB

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious...
BEATRICE WEBB

I can't imagine working without and audience. And we had a great cast in both shows. And the great w...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det...
BEATRICE WEBB

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
BEATRICE SPARKS

I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in ...
BEATRICE SPARKS

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
EVELYN BEATRICE HALL

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness a...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to a...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in ...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Even when she was raising us, she would make time to go out and solicit friends and acquaintances to...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON

Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON

She enjoyed spending time in Florida, but would never think of leaving the city that she truly loved...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would ha...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Religion is love; in no case is it logic
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

At her words, words of forgiveness from Rose, an honest and just woman, something broke inside of Wi...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

In this part of Canada, it was assumed that the passengers would provide each other with entertainme...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty an...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

It's like I'm dreaming of the imaginary friend Katie and I had when we were little. She'd been so re...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

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

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

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

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

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You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

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