Natalie Portman Quotes
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
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All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of himself on the floods where he is gently caught.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I'm drawing in my head pretty much.
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I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
