Natalie Portman Quotes
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
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A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).
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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
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She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.
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If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
