Natalie Portman Quotes

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

Natalie Portman

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• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • High
  • Want
  • Problems

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Alone
  • Always
  • Camera

• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Camera
  • U.S.
  • Psychoanalysis

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Lie
  • Camera
  • Cannot

• The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Pressure
  • Walk
  • Camera

• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Work
  • Love
  • Me

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Style
  • Opinion
  • Camera

• My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Lies

• Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Soul
  • Never
  • Camera

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Mind
  • Daily
  • Bored

• I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Acting
  • Camera

• I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Camera

• What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

  

  Adam Green
  • Family
  • Amazing
  • Camera

• I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Doing
  • Camera
  • Commercials

• I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Born
  • Camera
  • Naked

• It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.

  

  Sadie Calvano
  • People
  • Up
  • Focus

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• What happened basically is that they were doing a figure-8 bus race, and the driver was ejected and run over

  

  Tom Atkins
  • Race
  • Run
  • Bus

• I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Actors
  • Camera
  • Bunch