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

• 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

• If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Bible
  • Hammers
  • Geologist

• Now -- fuck -- we've all gotta go back and get busy with our lives. But it was nice that we all came together to experience the INDESTRUCTIBLE POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL once again!

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Experience
  • Lives
  • Busy

• Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Speak
  • Fly
  • Stick

• People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Question
  • Supposed

• My advice for an aspiring astronaut is to really follow your passion. I mean, study something that interests you, but also qualifies you to apply. NASA recruits from a wide variety of backgrounds. I know people who have applied to be an astronaut who ask me, well should I do this or should I do that. And I said, you know, it doesn't matter. The basic requirements are you have to be in good health, and you have to have a good heart, I mean in a technical way, not to be a kind person, well that helps. Study something that you like and do well in it.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Jobs
  • Boring
  • Interviews

• 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