Natalie Portman Quotes

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

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• I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Father
  • Alone
  • Mom

• 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

• I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Myself

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • May
  • Want
  • Question

• A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Technology

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Space
  • Lived
  • Buildings

• Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Like
  • Wine
  • Sarcasm

• Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Family
  • Strong

• Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Men
  • Gym
  • Silent

• I'm a great jazz fan.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Great
  • Jazz
  • Fan

• I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mountain

• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • You
  • Attitude
  • Eagles

• Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Team
  • Focus

• The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Book
  • Think
  • Laugh

• Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Heart
  • Soul

• For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

  

  James Boswell
  • Career
  • Jobs
  • Theater

• As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret about them, and then at some point there's no other option but to turn them lose and see how they do.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Option

• As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Option
  • Director
  • Watching