Top 100 Natalie Portman Quotes
#1. Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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#2. I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.
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#3. No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
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#4. Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
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#5. I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time.
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#6. I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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#7. I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.
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#8. I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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#9. Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?
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#11. I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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#12. I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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#14. Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.
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#15. I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.
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#16. I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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#17. I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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#18. There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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#19. Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
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#20. If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
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#21. I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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#22. I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much
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#24. I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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#25. I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.
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#26. Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.
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#27. It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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#28. Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.
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#29. My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.
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#30. I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.
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#31. I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.
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#32. New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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#33. Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.
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#34. I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.
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#35. I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean ... you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
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#36. One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.
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#37. Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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#38. I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.
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#39. Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.
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#40. I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'
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#41. There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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#42. I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.
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#43. My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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#44. I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
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#45. People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.
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#46. It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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#47. It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.
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#49. We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.
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#50. I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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#51. If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.
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#52. I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys
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#53. We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.
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#54. I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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#55. The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.
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#56. I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
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#57. I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.
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#58. I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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#59. I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.
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#60. Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
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#62. I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.
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#63. I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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#64. And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.
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#65. It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
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#66. I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
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#67. I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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#69. I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
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#70. I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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#71. I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
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#72. I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
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#73. Use Starbucks mints for every occasion - they're the strongest
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#74. As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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#75. When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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#76. Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
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#77. I really hate being self-conscious - and being conscious of being self-conscious
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#78. The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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#79. I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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#80. I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?
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#81. It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.
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#82. A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
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#83. The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
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#84. The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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#85. Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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#87. I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy
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#88. I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood
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#89. When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
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#90. When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
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#91. Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
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#92. Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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#93. I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly
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#94. I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself - or other people - in a different way.
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#95. You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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#96. I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
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#97. My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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#98. I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.
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#99. If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive
that's what's important.
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#100. I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
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