Natalie Portman Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
