Natalie Portman Quotes

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Natalie Portman

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• Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Together
  • You
  • Star

• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Twitter

• I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Everything

• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Work
  • God
  • Sleep

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Country
  • English
  • Emotion

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
  • Happen
  • Winner

• Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Nations
  • Exhausted

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Two
  • Expect
  • Maybe

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Relationship

• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Humble

• Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I like Columbus, Ohio, because it's Pleasantville for real. They have the nicest white people I have ever met, and I mean that!

  

  Bobby Lee
  • People
  • Real

• While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew up in Detroit - and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit.

  

  Andrew J. Feustel
  • Up
  • Science
  • Community

• I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

  

  Martin Short
  • Career

• I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Imagination
  • Terror
  • Scare

• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Career
  • College