Natalie Portman Quotes

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

Natalie Portman

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• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Hope
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Opportunities

• I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Animal

• Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

  

  Don McLean
  • Good
  • American
  • Die

• The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Virtue
  • Essence
  • Loses

• To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

  

  William Blake
  • Shadows
  • Contemptible
  • Excrement

• Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Damned
  • Holdsworth

• There need to be more women supporting women. Not just in fashion, in general.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Need

• Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Power
  • Conscious

• Stephenie Meyer + Science = wrong!

  

  Alex Day Chameleon Circuit
  • Science
  • Wrong

• When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Wife

• You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Future
  • Expectations
  • Paving

• I could never properly explain the bond I have with my fans, I feel like they are my family, they are just so supportive and incredibly dedicated I could never put into words how thankful I am for them. They inspire me and I want to keep doing what I'm doing because of them, it's so amazing.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Family
  • Words
  • Amazing

• I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Ideas
  • Chance
  • Stuff

• I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Interviews
  • Fairy
  • Astronaut