Natalie Portman Quotes

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

Natalie Portman

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• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Film
  • Festival
  • Showing

• There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Hair

• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Money
  • Things
  • More

• When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Reading
  • Feel
  • Right

• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Song

• I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Sin

• A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Sweet
  • Spring

• Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Future
  • Die
  • Rich

• In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Better
  • Look
  • Did

• For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked but America's self-confidence.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • America
  • Confidence
  • Attacked

• Through this entire process we always wanted what was best for Patrick, and in working with him we feel this is where he wants to be. We wish him the best with the Jets.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Wish
  • Training
  • Process

• Some folk want their luck buttered.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Want
  • Luck
  • Folk

• Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.

  

  William Mapother
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Body

• I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Famous
  • Substance
  • I Hate

• My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Relationships
  • Producers
  • Photographers

• I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Jews
  • Scripts
  • I Hate