Natalie Portman Quotes

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Food
  • Choice
  • Salmon

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Political
  • Performance

• My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Garden

• Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Good
  • Want
  • Values

• Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• ’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Thank
  • Statues
  • Dentists

• I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Time
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art
  • Style

• I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.

  

  David Dewhurst
  • People
  • Victory

• Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • God
  • Important
  • Mind

• He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Lord

• When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories.

  

  Luke Macfarlane
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Celebrity
  • Charity