Natalie Portman Quotes
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With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
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Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.
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I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
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It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do.
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I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious.
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It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
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But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.
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Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.
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I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».
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I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.
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I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.
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Hillary Clinton wants to extend the Obamacare rule that healthcare companies cannot discriminate against women and charge them more than men for their healthcare. Donald Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare.
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I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.
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I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.
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I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'
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Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.
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I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
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People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
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I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood.
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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.