Natalie Portman Quotes

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

Natalie Portman

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• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Important
  • Light

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Takes
  • Shoe

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Love
  • Power

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Like

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Early

• How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Real
  • Human

• Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Public

• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Things
  • Really

• They're inherently good people, every single person that I've ever worked with on an 'Avengers' film. I think they want to do good, and they want people to be happy, and they want to speak what they believe.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Attention
  • Question
  • Matter

• I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Business
  • Movie