Top 100 Quotes About Natalie Portman
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Natalie Portman never looks back, ever. Ever!
Debby Ryan
#7. I really love Natalie Portman; she's the real deal.
Kirsten Prout
#8. I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.
Ashley Benson
#9. I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
Bailee Madison
#10. When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.
Kenneth Branagh
#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. Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Maiara Walsh
#13. I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.
Hayden Panettiere
#14. Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.
Jay Leno
#15. Natalie Portman is one of my favorites, and Jodie Foster. Those two are amazing actresses.
Alexa Vega
#16. I was shooting a scene in my new film, No Strings Attached, in which I say to Natalie Portman, If you miss me. you can't text, you can't email, you can't post it on my Facebook wall. If you really miss me, you come and see me.
Ashton Kutcher
#17. I am waiting to write the poem that is something like a dance movie, the ones populated by fair haired ballerinas with just a little bit of singe to their tulle, not quite as dark as the Natalie Portman one, but girls woefully misunderstood by their parents or harboring dead mothers and sad pasts.
Kristy Bowen
#18. I've been in love with Natalie Portman for a long time now. She's flawless.
Brant Daugherty
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.
Natalie Portman
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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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#25. 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?
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#26. People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.
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#27. 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.'
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#28. No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
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#29. 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.
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#30. I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.
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#31. Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.
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#36. I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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#37. 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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#39. 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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#40. Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
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#41. 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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#43. 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.
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#44. I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
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#45. 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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#46. If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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#48. 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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#49. When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
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#50. 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
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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 ...
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#58. 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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#59. I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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#60. I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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#61. 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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#63. I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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
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#82. Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
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#86. The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.
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#87. People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.
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#88. It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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#89. I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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#90. 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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#92. 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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#94. I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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#95. If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.
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#96. 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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#97. I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. 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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