Natalie Portman Quotes
I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
-
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
-
Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
-
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
-
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
-
The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
-
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
-
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
-
You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
-
For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
-
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
-
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
-
Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
-
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
-
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
-
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
-
Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
-
A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
-
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
-
If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
-
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
-
If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
-
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.
-
I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
