Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

- Joanne Woodward

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

- Joanne Woodward

I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the…

- Joanne Woodward

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of …

- Joanne Woodward

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

- Joanne Woodward

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

- Joanne Woodward

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel W…

- Joanne Woodward

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from h…

- Joanne Woodward

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never qui…

- Joanne Woodward