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
  • Myself
  • Moments

• 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

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• 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

• The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • School
  • Girl
  • Support

• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Very

• When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Happy
  • Mirror
  • I Feel

• We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Option
  • Credit
  • Calling

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

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Option
  • Director
  • Watching