Natalie Portman Quotes

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

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• I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Nice

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • God
  • Myself

• I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Years

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Baseball

• Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Emotions

• It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Nice
  • Always
  • See

• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

  

  Om Puri
  • Good
  • Working
  • Cinema

• The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Words
  • Day

• I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • American
  • Not Good Enough

• Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola.

  

  Alan G. Poindexter
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

  

  Fredrik Bajer
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Alone
  • Fall

• I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 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
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Vanity