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.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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.
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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.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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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.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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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.
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’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.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
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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.
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I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
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My dad was very rough with us.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.
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I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.
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I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
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In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
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I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».
