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.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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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.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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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.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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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.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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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.
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Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
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I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
