Natalie Portman Quotes
I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'