Rose Hovick:
You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress. Not a cheap stripper.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.
Rose Hovick: You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I'll be *dead*.
--Natalie Wood (as Louise Hovick) in Gypsy
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.
Rose Hovick: You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I'll be *dead*.
--Natalie Wood (as Louise Hovick) in Gypsy
Dominick Rossini:
How are you?
Angie Rossini: Find and you?
Dominick Rossini: Fine.
Angie Rossini: That's fine.
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
Angie Rossini: Find and you?
Dominick Rossini: Fine.
Angie Rossini: That's fine.
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
Jim Stark:
Is this where you live?
Judy: Who lives?
--Natalie Wood (as Judy) in Rebel Without a Cause
Judy: Who lives?
--Natalie Wood (as Judy) in Rebel Without a Cause
Jim Stark:
Nobody talks to children.
Judy: No, they just tell them.
--Natalie Wood (as Judy) in Rebel Without a Cause
Judy: No, they just tell them.
--Natalie Wood (as Judy) in Rebel Without a Cause
Mama Rossini:
Ask him would he like a piece of cake or something.
Angie Rossini: Would you like a piece of cake or something?
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
Angie Rossini: Would you like a piece of cake or something?
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
Buzz Gunderson:
What's that?
Judy: That's a new disease.
--Natalie Wood (as Judy) in Rebel Without a Cause
Judy: That's a new disease.
--Natalie Wood (as Judy) in Rebel Without a Cause
Bud:
Deanie, you're a nice girl.
Wilma Dean: I'm not. I'm not a nice girl.
--Natalie Wood (as Wilma Dean Loomis) in Splendor in the Grass
Wilma Dean: I'm not. I'm not a nice girl.
--Natalie Wood (as Wilma Dean Loomis) in Splendor in the Grass
Angie Rossini:
[after Rocky ask her out] Well, I've got a date.
Rocky Papasano: [puzzled] With who?
Rocky Papasano: [Angie bursts out laughing] What's funny?
Angie Rossini: If I didn't know better, I'd swear you're my brother Dominick.
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
Rocky Papasano: [puzzled] With who?
Rocky Papasano: [Angie bursts out laughing] What's funny?
Angie Rossini: If I didn't know better, I'd swear you're my brother Dominick.
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
Angie Rossini:
[listening to the song "Love with the Proper Stranger] That's what love is - bells and banjos playing? How they brainwash you! And here I spend my whole life like a nut waiting for what? A stranger.
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
--Natalie Wood (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger
