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

• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Impossible

• 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

• I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Think
  • Find
  • Musically

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Health
  • Care

• I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up.

  

  Andrea Mackris
  • Up
  • House
  • Career

• Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Dangerous
  • Trusted
  • Losers

• 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