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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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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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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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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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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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
