Lillian Corning: I'd like to give you a going away present. You may not like it, but I don't care. It's just this: you're never gonna forget me. You're gonna walk down the street of wherever you happen to be, you're gonna see me, even when you know I'm not there. And nobody is ever gonna be as right for you as I was for twelve days in Paris in the autumn 'cause that was your gift to me.


--Joanne Woodward (as Lillian Corning) in Paris Blues

Lillian Corning: You know, everybody's always waiting for everybody else to take a chance because they're so afraid!


--Joanne Woodward (as Lillian Corning) in Paris Blues

Mary St. John: The trouble with this company is it's run by a lot of old men.


--Joanne Woodward (as Mary St. John / Mrs. Alfred Eaton) in From the Terrace

Mary St. John: You're not going to want anyone else as long as you live!


--Joanne Woodward (as Mary St. John / Mrs. Alfred Eaton) in From the Terrace

Quentin Compson: I just happen to be an eccentric.


--Joanne Woodward (as Quentin Compson / Narrator) in The Sound and the Fury

Rachel Cameron: [On the phone with her mother in the room] Hello?
Nick Kazlik: [On the other line] Hello.
Rachel Cameron: Oh, hello!
Nick Kazlik: My folks are away for the weekend. So, I thought maybe you'd like to play house. We got, like, three bedrooms, so we can chase each other from room to room between... you know.
Rachel Cameron: I mean, yes, I'd love to read that book. That sounds very interesting. Can you get it from the public library?
Nick Kazlik: Oh, you can't talk, right?
Rachel Cameron: Right. At this moment, I'm Venus observed.


--Joanne Woodward (as Rachel Cameron) in Rachel, Rachel

Rachel Cameron: Back to our respective cages.


--Joanne Woodward (as Rachel Cameron) in Rachel, Rachel

Rachel Cameron: I'm exactly in the middle of my life. This is my last... ascending summer. Everything else from now on is just rolling downhill into my grave.


--Joanne Woodward (as Rachel Cameron) in Rachel, Rachel

Samantha Blake: Hello, cherie.


--Joanne Woodward (as Samantha) in A New Kind of Love

Samantha Blake: I don't want to be a semi-maiden forever.
Steve Sherman: What the hell is that?
Samantha Blake: It's worse than nothing at all. It's like eating one peanut.


--Joanne Woodward (as Samantha) in A New Kind of Love