Natalie Portman Quotes

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Natalie Portman

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Children
  • Child
  • Same

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • More
  • Making Money

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Moment
  • Sound
  • Capture

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Man
  • Living
  • Go

• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Policy
  • Taxes
  • Connections

• Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Possibility
  • Recovery
  • Cousin

• The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Good

• In building the helping relationship, encouragement—via positive reinforcement—certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Relationship
  • Encouragement
  • Insulting

• When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • People
  • Stories
  • Conservative

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay