Top 100 Portman Quotes

#1. If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

Daniel Portman

#2. I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Natalie Portman

#3. We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home.

Rob Portman

#4. Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Natalie Portman

#5. They do not usually deal with amenities - features that are not essential but make living a little easier, such as drapes, washing machines, swimming pools, saunas, parking places, intercoms, and dishwashers.

Janet Portman

#6. If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Portman

#7. 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.

Natalie Portman

#8. For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

Rob Portman

#9. 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.

Natalie Portman

#10. I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Ohio feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights.

Rob Portman

#11. Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?

Natalie Portman

#12. People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

Natalie Portman

#13. Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.

Rob Portman

#14. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Jamie Bell

#15. Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin.

Rob Portman

#16. Communication is pointless and we're all doomed.

Frank Portman

#17. The entire second-period sophomore girls' PE class thought my balls were uniquely and supremely beneath contempt. Great.

Frank Portman

#18. Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'

Natalie Portman

#19. I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.

Selena Gomez

#20. No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

Natalie Portman

#21. I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

Rob Portman

#22. Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

Natalie Portman

#23. And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd just stand aside and get out of my fucking way.

Frank Portman

#24. At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.

Rob Portman

#25. I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

Natalie Portman

#26. President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

Rob Portman

#27. I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.

Rob Portman

#28. Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

Natalie Portman

#29. I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

Sami Gayle

#30. 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.

Natalie Portman

#31. 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.

Natalie Portman

#32. 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.

Natalie Portman

#33. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Natalie Portman

#34. I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.

Natalie Portman

#35. 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?

Natalie Portman

#36. I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

Natalie Portman

#37. The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

Rob Portman

#38. This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.

Rob Portman

#39. As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.

Rob Portman

#40. I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire time they were acting. All I did was one small little independent film, and I realised I couldn't balance both lives.

Nikki Reed

#41. 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!

Natalie Portman

#42. Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

Natalie Portman

#43. I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

Rob Portman

#44. I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

Natalie Portman

#45. 'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

Natalie Portman

#46. I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.

Natalie Portman

#47. I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Natalie Portman

#48. I don't know what's going to happen specifically on votes on Obamacare. I suspect we'll vote to repeal early to put on record the fact that we Republicans think it's a bad policy, and we think it's hurting our constituents, and we think health care cost should be going down, not up.

Rob Portman

#49. People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

Rob Portman

#50. 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.

Natalie Portman

#51. If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

Natalie Portman

#52. We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

Rob Portman

#53. It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

Frank Portman

#54. Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.

Rob Portman

#55. I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

Liane Balaban

#56. No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

Rob Portman

#57. We live in a real world. Come back to it.

Natalie Portman

#58. 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.

Natalie Portman

#59. Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.

John C. Portman Jr.

#60. When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

Natalie Portman

#61. I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world

Natalie Portman

#62. I was definitely different from the other kids ... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Natalie Portman

#63. 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.

Natalie Portman

#64. D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

Frank Portman

#65. 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.

Natalie Portman

#66. What we need is fundamental tax reform.

Rob Portman

#67. Kyrie Irving could use a little help.

Rob Portman

#68. They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

Natalie Portman

#69. 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.

Natalie Portman

#70. Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

John Portman

#71. 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.

Natalie Portman

#72. It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people ...

Natalie Portman

#73. 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.

Natalie Portman

#74. I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

Natalie Portman

#75. I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

Rob Portman

#76. I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Natalie Portman

#77. Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

Rob Portman

#78. I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much

Natalie Portman

#79. When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.

Rob Portman

#80. Grandpa Portman really knew how to keep a secret, didn't he?""Are you kidding? The man was an emotional Fort Knox.

Ransom Riggs

#81. Natalie Portman never looks back, ever. Ever!

Debby Ryan

#82. I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.

Rob Portman

#83. Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

Rob Portman

#84. I remember how to be a person by being around them.

Natalie Portman

#85. We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.

Rob Portman

#86. Sam Hellerman is a genius!

Frank Portman

#87. I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

Natalie Portman

#88. 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.

Natalie Portman

#89. Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Natalie Portman

#90. 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.

Natalie Portman

#91. John Kasich is the most popular elected official in Ohio because he got things done.

Rob Portman

#92. Review Court Records Use Megan's Law to Check State Databases of Sexual Offenders

Janet Portman

#93. Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

Natalie Portman

#94. The broad goal, laid out by Congress, the Obama administration, and the U.N. Security Council, was that Iran would suspend all enrichment-related activities and not be permitted a path to ever pursue a nuclear weapons program.

Rob Portman

#95. 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.

Natalie Portman

#96. Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

Rob Portman

#97. I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

Natalie Portman

#98. You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions and quotations carefully and hardly anyone will even notice or get it anyway.

Frank Portman

#99. I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

Frank Portman

#100. 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.

Natalie Portman

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top