Portman's Quotes

#1. Grandpa had told him some of the same stories when he was a kid, and they weren't lies, exactly, but exaggerated versions of the truth - because the story of Grandpa Portman's childhood wasn't a fairy tale at all. It was a horror story.

Ransom Riggs

#2. 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.

Natalie Portman

#3. President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

Rob Portman

#4. With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

Rob Portman

#5. You don't know what it's been like all these years, seeing things that are invisible to everybody else. I knew I wasn't crazy, I knew it, but the rest of the world thought I was, and after a while even I started to wonder, you know?

C.A. Gray

#6. I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

Natalie Portman

#7. The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

Rob Portman

#8. I believe it's wrong to say someone can't do his or her job because of their heritage.

Rob Portman

#9. 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.

Natalie Portman

#10. 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.

Natalie Portman

#11. I love Natalie Portman. She worked when she was younger, and she's so talented and private. She doesn't do things that are too crazy, but she pushes the envelope enough.

Hilary Duff

#12. Let's create jobs by bringing the Shaheen-Portman bipartisan energy efficiency bill to the floor.

Jeanne Shaheen

#13. 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.

Natalie Portman

#14. I'm not any religion myself, but for the record, I'm pretty sure I do believe in God. It's just a feeling I have. I can't prove it, but since when are you supposed to prove a feeling? God is the only situation where they expect you to do that. Plus, God embarrasses people. Which I totally enjoy.

Frank Portman

#15. 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.

Natalie Portman

#16. It's the wrong time for us to be pulling the rug out from under American exporters.

Rob Portman

#17. If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

Rob Portman

#18. 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.

Natalie Portman

#19. 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.

Natalie Portman

#20. There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

Rob Portman

#21. We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

Rob Portman

#22. 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.

Natalie Portman

#23. We should not throw in the towel. Instead, we should be saying to young people, 'There is a better way for you to have a healthy and productive life, and that's not to get into drug use and drug abuse.'

Rob Portman

#24. There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

Rob Portman

#25. When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself

Natalie Portman

#26. There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

Natalie Portman

#27. There's something weird and sexual about the way some people talk about God
have you noticed?

Frank Portman

#28. She only wears black now and she's umm; well she's threatening to become a vampire.

Guy Portman

#29. If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive
that's what's important.

Natalie Portman

#30. 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.

Natalie Portman

#31. 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.

Natalie Portman

#32. There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Natalie Portman

#33. It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

John Portman

#34. I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.

Natalie Portman

#35. I know a small part of you thinks you could've ended up with Natalie Portman if you had played things a little differently. That's nice. You can have that. That's not hurting anybody.

Mindy Kaling

#36. The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

Natalie Portman

#37. But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

Natalie Portman

#38. 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

Natalie Portman

#39. I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

Natalie Portman

#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.'

Natalie Portman

#41. There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.

Tia Mowry

#42. It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

Natalie Portman

#43. Ohioans need peace of mind that the water coming out of their tap is safe. It's as simple as that.

Rob Portman

#44. 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?

Natalie Portman

#45. 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.

Natalie Portman

#46. There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

Frank Portman

#47. I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

Natalie Portman

#48. When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

Natalie Portman

#49. I've been in love with Natalie Portman for a long time now. She's flawless.

Brant Daugherty

#50. Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up.

Rob Portman

#51. I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.

Natalie Portman

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

Natalie Portman

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

Rob Portman

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

Rob Portman

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

Natalie Portman

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Frank Portman

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

Frank Portman

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

Rob Portman

#63. 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

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

Rob Portman

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

Natalie Portman

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

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

Rob Portman

#72. 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

#73. 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

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

Rob Portman

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

Natalie Portman

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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.

Natalie Portman

#79. 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.

Natalie Portman

#80. I can give a speech, and I can do a rally, and I do them, but that's not what I like to do.

Rob Portman

#81. It's not about sizzle for me. I think it's fine. I mean, America made a decision in 2008 to go with a president who did have sizzle.

Rob Portman

#82. The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.

Rob Portman

#83. I really love Natalie Portman; she's the real deal.

Kirsten Prout

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

Rob Portman

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

Janet Portman

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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.

Natalie Portman

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

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

Rob Portman

#96. 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

#97. 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

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

Natalie Portman

#99. 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

#100. 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