Joanne Woodward movie quotes

“Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.”
Joanne Woodward

“Carriages waited at the curb for the entire performance. It was widely known in New York, but never acknowledged, that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.”
Joanne Woodward - The Narrator

“- Amanda Wingfield: Rise and shine! Rise and shine!
- Tom Wingfield: I will rise but I will not shine...”
Joanne Woodward - Amanda Wingfield
John Malkovich - Tom Wingfield

“I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.”
Joanne Woodward

“My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.”
Joanne Woodward

“The burden of her flesh had made it long since impossible to go up and down stairs. So, with characteristic independence, she had established herself on the ground floor of her house. From a sitting room, there was an unexpected vista of her bedroom. Her visitors were startled and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joanne Woodward - The Narrator

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present becomes the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”
Joanne Woodward - Amanda Wingfield

“It was not the custom in New York drawing rooms for a lady to get up and walk away from one gentleman in order to seek the company of another. But, the Countess did not observe this rule.”
Joanne Woodward - The Narrator

“Archer enjoyed such challenges to convention. He questioned conformity in private; but, in public, he upheld family and tradition. This was a world balanced so precariously that it's harmony could be shattered by a whisper.”
Joanne Woodward - The Narrator

“Well, I didn't raise my kids to sit in the back of the bus. You get in there and you fight for your rights, okay?”
Joanne Woodward - Sarah Beckett