Natalie Portman Quotes
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When I was nine and attending a Jewish school, we had different kosher lunches served. We weren't kosher at home. My mom used to make me chicken salad sandwiches and I would have to lie to everyone, saying it was tuna. It doesn't smell like tuna, they'd say.
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What I would do between scenes was go somewhere and cry. When you watch the film, you can actually tell, you can see in lots of scenes that I've been crying and my eyes are red. It showed on film, and I learned my lesson.
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When I got the part, they gave me a script to take home. I remember crying when I read it. I was so excited.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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When you stay out all night, you realize the next day—when you're dead tired—why your parents had curfews for you.
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Being Queen Amidala is like the stupidest accomplishment.
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When I was younger I thought 'I'm gonna change the world!'.
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They knew that I am Israeli, and yet they still opened the doors of their houses for me, offering me tea. They all were nice and hospitable.
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Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
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Told the November 1999 issue of Mademoiselle magazine that she wished she knew David Letterman because, He seems to be so smart, but you never get to hang out with him after the show.
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The adults in this movie weren't really that adult. Have you interviewed Michael [Rapaport] yet?.
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I think of everything as a life experience. If I do the film then that is my experience, but if I don't do a film that is just as much an experience for me.
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I want something that will stimulate me as much as the books I'm reading at school .. There's got to be some sort of magic and craft that goes into making it.
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Hayden and I found a rhythm together right away, learned to trust each other completely, and became co-conspirators.
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I don't like that question. That question only provides irony if you prematurely die.
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Being smart and studying is so dorky and is seen as being nerdy in this country, so I think it is kind of cool for girls to see someone like me, who is really interested in school. It's okay to be a studying dork, you don't have to be out partying all the time.
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He told me later that he didn't recognize me, he just thought I was cute. When I left, we exchanged fax numbers and faxed five-page letters every day for two or three weeks.
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I can totally imagine myself not being an actress, but it's a little stranger now that I've started to get more recognition. If I want to be a doctor, it will be weird for my patients to think, 'Oh, my doctor's the mother of Princess Leia.'.
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But I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
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I'd do a kids' movie if it was realistic, but those hunky-dory tales are stupid sometimes.They make kids with real lives feel they are not as happy.
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I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious.
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There came a point, in my first year at college, when it was just really difficult, I realised there were two me's. There was the me that went to school and was totally normal. That me wouldn't let anyone talk about acting. If anyone even brought it up, I would go completely quiet and do this whole embarrassed thing and be really awkward about it. And then there was the me that would go out and be Hollywood Girl and love it - love dressing up and getting all made up and going out and having everyone looking at me. And it was really hard to reconcile the two me's, because all of a sudden I was moving into adulthood and the two lives were merging and I didn't know what to do. It even made me hate one part of myself when I was the other. I didn't want to be the actress girl' at school because I knew that people would resent me, and I wanted to be just like the other kids. And I didn't want to be different when I was in Hollywood, either.
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I am not a shy person. But I'm very self-conscious and very worried about what other people are thinking.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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I wish I could stay in school and act forever. I really like the combination.
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In seventh grade I cried every single day when I came back from shooting The Professional. My friends were not my friends. They were saying, 'She thinks she's so hot now,' things like that, and it was the most painful thing I've ever gone through. Clearly, I haven't had that difficult a life. - Jane Magazine 1999.
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I remember this one scene we had to shoot, where me, Hayden, and Ewan all had to stand on this huge, mechanical bull in front of a bluescreen. Hayden was in front, I was in the middle and Ewan was standing behind me. Honestly! The rude things he was whispering in my ear! I mean, Ewan's a suggestive guy at the best of times, but jumping around together in what he called his 'sandwich' was just too good an opportunity for him to resist. Trust me, he said absolutly everything you could imagine..
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Why would I be stupid and have a fake ID? That's just outrageous.
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I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place.
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Politics is easy to segue into from acting. I'm very interested in it, though I would never run for office. But after this, anything I do is going to seem very bizarre to me. (Interview October 1999).
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My parents have always stressed education over success, over money - over everything.
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I aspire to make more comedies because we never see enough good ones.
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I always get, like a blow-dryer. Check out my weapons--it totally looks like I just came from doing my hair.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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I mean, I'm 20, there's, like, no way I can be interesting enough to talk about myself all day long.
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Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?.
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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’m very critical of myself. You become so much more self-conscious as you get older, and that’s your worst enemy as an actor.
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It was fun! It certainly freaked my mom out the first time she saw it.
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I make an extra point of not seeming arrogant. I used to be the first one to get on stage at school and sing, and now.. you couldn't pay me to do that.
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My style icon now is Willie Nelson. You're lucky I didn't rock the bandanna, too.
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George worked with me a lot, on changing my voice and my movement and the way I carried myself. We worked on this accent that .. kinda goes to old, older generations of actresses who used kind of an unidentifiable accent. 'Is it American or is it British?' and I watched Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn. If you look at them, their voices and the stature is so regal, even in their everyday characters. And that's kinda why I used it to model after.
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I think it's kind of comforting to people to see that I have a complete life outside of acting.
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I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits.
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If I weren't an actor ? Oh, Lord knows, maybe I'd be a professional action figure or something..
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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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I came back from shooting Leon, and no one would talk to me. Everyone kept saying, 'Oh you think you're such a hot-shot.' I had no friends. It was the worst year of my life.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction (1994), 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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Ashley (Judd) and I went to this place called the Broken Spoke. You walk in and everyone's wearing cowboy hats and men come up to you and ask you to dance. We danced the two-step together, and all these men were coming up, saying, It's not right to see two ladies dancing. Let us cut in!.
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I'm excited to taste alcohol too! It's been a long, long patient wait.
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I don't know if I could live with acting my whole life because there are such huge periods between films. I see these 20-year-old actors who do nothing but smoke cigarettes and go to clubs every night while they wait for their next part, and I couldn't stand living that way.
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I've just started college and my mum cried everyday this summer.
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It's really challenging for your imagination and puts you back in a pretty childlike state. It was wonderful, in a way; it's sort of the purest form of acting.
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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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I so appreciate as an art, and I love looking at clothes, but in terms of going out and buying the stuff, I try not to get too sucked into the moment.
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I've always found actor-y people to be really creepy.
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I was the precocious one when I was younger, and now I'm the girlish one, which ultimately means I've stayed the same. Which is not a good sign.
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When asked by Seventeen magazine what advice she had for teenagers going off to college she said, I would say practicing laundry it's so hard. (November 1999).
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The only annoying thing is when people stare at me. I know it's part of the thing, so I'm trying to get over it, but it's the weirdest feeling. I just feel like it's a really rude thing to do. I'm not a person who's ever trying to attract attention. Usually, I'm OK because I'm short and I'm brown-haired and I kind of blend in, but it's very weird.
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God, yes! I was so sure I wasn't going to win it, I went up to Meryl Streep (nominated for The Manchurian Candidate (2004)) before the show and said, You're going down. We'd done a play together, so I knew her pretty well, but to me, it was a big joke, like, I'm going to win against Meryl-yeah, right. When they called my name, all I could think was, oh no, Meryl's going to be mad at me!.
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I made all that fighting stuff up on the spot, you really have to stash away all your inhibitions when you do it, because you end up looking like a complete fool. You know, I've wrestled with air! There's not a lot of people who can come home from work and say that.
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I was in a relationship recently with someone who yelled at me for being too much in my head, you know? He said I was thinking too much about everything.
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I think that psychology certainly helps in understanding people's motivations -- why people do what they do.
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I'm more spiritual than religious. I believe there is a power and the instinct and intuition that runs our life. I think one should be like a Jedi and follow one's instinct.
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It would be very strange to be, like, a lawyer or a doctor, after you've been in Star Wars.
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I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
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It’s very strange to know that little kids somewhere will be playing with me.
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I want to use college to explore what other careers I might be interested in.
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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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There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor. (Seventeen, November 1999).
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You learn after your first blue-screen movie, and more after your second, the extent to which you have to prepare. You have to come up with the scenery, the characters, the whole world, as well as what's going on with you. You're often talking to a tape mark instead of a character, and you have to project what they might be thinking, what's going on, how they're treating you.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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Dave Letterman: Now, what kind of stuff do you do in first year Chemistry?.
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He asked me three questions like, 'Where do you live? How old are you? Are you free for the fall?'.
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I started out the year, you know, I'm going to clean once a week, I'm going to do my laundry, I'm going to go grocery shopping, and like two weeks later.. No way, I've got like, dustballs the size of my head floating around.. I've got like piles of laundry.
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The only sibling I ever wanted was an older brother, so he could introduce me to cute boys.
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After the Star Wars premiere, my dad was so smitten by Natasha Richardson, I was like, 'Dad, stop. You're embarrassing me. Mommy's here. Liam is next to you. And he's like five times your size.
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Someone asked to take a picture and I said no so they got mad at me! I'm not a Mickey Mouse..
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Overall, to get a real deep, nuanced understanding of human behaviour, art is the best way.
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I actually only watched it on my own, I have a really hard time watching myself on screen so I just sort of saw it alone in a theatre.
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I think, especially in those first few years of college, my body started changing a lot. I got hips. Your metabolism changes; you're not exercising as much. I ran track for a couple of years in high school, and I was also dancing. I was always doing something. At Harvard, you don't really join the team unless you're a star.
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Hanging out on the 'Star Wars' set will make a great essay when I go back to school.
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I'm pretty normal. I go out, I party, I go to movies, I hang with my friends. My friends and I are going to work for this elderly gentleman in our town: we're going to help organise his books, so that should be fun.
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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.
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Acting probably is making me grow up faster than I normally would because I'm around adults so much of the time. I'm friends with people much older than me, but they're all quite intent on maintaining my innocence. Yesterday Ted Demme [director of Beautiful Girls] told me that if anyone ever did anything bad to me, I'd have his 20 big brothers rush to my rescue.
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I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews .. I get, like, 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
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I think the really smart people don't get A's. They realize it doesn't matter whether they hand in their paper on time. Whereas all my papers are on time. I don't challenge the guidelines much.
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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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Flying in private small planes is something I really hate. That scares me a lot. I've been in a bunch of four-seaters which I really, really don't like.
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One day I was in Madame Tussaud's and the next day the real thing - I've got a wax figure of me now!.
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I was practicing with my dad like two days before, and, it took me like, an hour and a half to parallel park. I was going back and forth, and I hit, you know those big stone potted plant type things? It was literally, like, tilting over. I was like.. my dad was like No no no no no! And umm, the people in the car next to you, you know, when they see that you're, you know, a young driver, they just find it so amusing and they just kind of sit and stare and smile at you, and. that makes you feel better—you already feel like stupid enough that you're, you know, taking an hour to park and it's kind of like 'Aww, isn't that cute!' and you're just like 'Shut up!'.
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I really hadn't had experience with children 'cause I'm an only child and really didn't baby-sit very much growing up.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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I've never had anything traumatic happen to me in my life, yet I feel like I've experienced the same depth of pain that someone that might have lost a parent has.
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Just to be a good student and be a good kid.
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
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I used to butcher my Barbies. I would draw hearts on their cheeks. I would give them haircuts and I would keep going because it would be uneven and they would be left bald.
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I loved American Pie, and I love those old John Hughes movies, but I don't get sent those sorts of scripts. I guess people just don't think of me that way.
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The moment you buy into the idea you're above anyone else is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
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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 love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk moustaches, they're my heroes.
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It's so limiting to say that acting is 'it' in my life when there are so many other opportunities.
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I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly.
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I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
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I'm more interested in being a complete person and learning a lot more. I want to get to the point where I'm happy with myself and have made the most of myself as a human being.
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When people stare at me, I stare back at them, and I know it's not the nicest thing to do. It's just that I want them to understand how uncomfortable it is to be stared at. It's like you don't exist, you lose your whole life as a private person, and you're supposed to be OK with it. It gets me really upset and people don't realise you have a life, you are a human being outside.
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I didn't have this undying need to be an actress. I didn't have that fire in me ever -- at any point. And still, I don't think I have that within me.
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The people whose secrets I most want to know are people who actually have families and marriages as well as careers - people like Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore. I think that if I were like mid-30s and didn't have kids yet I would probably start adopting or something. Aargh, I don't even have a boyfriend, and I'm talking about kids!.
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Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are—like picking their nose. That's when you know someone is really comfortable around you.
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I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time.
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I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
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You'd have to go to the bathroom and you could get, you know, out of your clothes really easily so.. you know, sitting in my underwear, I'd go to the bathroom, and there's this huge headpiece, and I'd be sitting there, like holding it hoping it doesn't get.. involved, you know?.
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It's been incredible, I really feel like I know so much more about myself now, and that I've also learned how to keep asking questions that will lead me closer to myself and to my understanding of the way things are and the way things should be, and how to reconcile those two.
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I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth it. It's done wonders for my mood.
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You're always part of the cycle of evil until you become the object of it.
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I read everything. I'm too interested in what people think. It's like, if you don't know people are talking about you, it's fine, but if you know that they're talking about you, you want to know what they're saying.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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Being an actor is selfish, very 'me, me, me.' I'm ambitious, but not cutthroat.
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I never want to make any general statement about myself as I change my mind every single day.
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I think that perhaps no one would think I was ever cute if I weren't an actress. If we were going to a place, they would say the 'plain girl with brown hair is going to come over'.
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I'm taking it day by day. Right now I like acting, but if something else sparks my interest in college, I'll do that. It's so limiting to say, this is it for the rest of my life. There are so many things that interest me: I love math, science, literature, languages.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I had never been to a Wal-Mart, and I fell in love with it. It's the greatest place because you could certainly live there.
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I'm trying to grow into a complete, well-rounded person, and I really am interested in learning and I'd feel really stupid [laughs] if I stopped after high school.
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I think it is a really beautiful thing that we have recognition within our industry - but it's not that important.
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I don't want people to wag me around like a Mickey Mouse doll.
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I want to fall in love. I'm waiting for it all to happen.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not able to be with the people I want to be with.
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I've been doing like one movie a year so I haven't made that many movies. A lot of girls my age have done 40 already, so I guess I'm a little behind.
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I was especially fascinated by memory studies. There was one that requested people's good and bad memories, and then checked them for content. But non- pathological people, people who maintain a happy, healthy brain, couldn't provide negative memories. They'd say, 'But I learned this from the experience;' they'd turn their negative memories into positive ones.
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I definitely gained my Freshman 15. I didn't mind weight so much as I did feeling unhealthy.
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Danny [Aiello—co-star in The Professional] told me 'Don't do television'.
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Kids are she Shakespearean fools in Hollywood movies. They hold the keys to wisdom in their innocence.
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It's hard for me to raise my voice. When I'm angry, I cry. But I can't do that in front of someone. I go to the bathroom and cry privately. The only hint that I'm dramatic is that I cry at movies. 'My Girl' kills me. I cried at 'The Sixth Sense'. Who cries at that?.
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I love working in my room when everyone's asleep. No one calls or emails when you're up at 2 in the morning.
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The dining hall was really messing with me. The vegetarian option was usually, like, tofu in oil sauce, and I really didn't like anything, so I'd ended up eating the vegetarian meal and the pasta and the peanut butter and jelly.
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Cutting out gelatin was hard for me—giving up Gummy Worms and Jell-O. I hated that!.
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I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
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I think if you joke around and give, like, short little cute responses, it's uninteresting and watery, so I end up coming off more serious than I actually am. I'm not as boring as it may appear.
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He took my phone book and called everyone in it. Some were people I hadn't seen in ages, but everyone came or called. I was mortified.
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Someone who I can talk to, and, obviously who is going to treat me well. So smart, funny, and a good person are the main qualifications.
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I just think Joe Schmo's more likely to be either intimidated by me or to admire me.
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When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself.
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Now if you ask me to get up in front of people and do anything like that I get so embarrassed. I'm humiliated if I have to speak in front of the class.
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As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me.
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I wish I did get really excited when someone sends me free clothes, but I don't.
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I kept laughing on stage because I was having so much fun with this other girl: She would cross her eyes at me on stage, and I'd start laughing, and people would be like, Natalie, you're not supposed to laugh on stage.
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It's nice 'cause everyone knows that someone else can do something way better than they can.
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I think I represent myself in a serious way because I'm not a flake and I don't want people to think that I am. But people have this impression of me. With my friends I'm a little baby.
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I'm fulfilling my dream now by getting an education and learning all these amazing things and finding new areas that fascinate me.
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It's my biggest pet peeve. Especially if it's a warm day.
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I get embarrassed when my parents dance. I'm always telling them, 'Lower your voice.'.
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There's a big intellectual aspect that's kind of lacking, she says of acting in films. Right now I supplement that through being in school. I'm not sure I'd be happy if I was just acting. I haven't explored a lot of other avenues. Hopefully I'll figure it out by the end of school, so I know what I want to do with my life.
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I don't think I'd be able to deal with just acting, because I don't know if you get to use your brain that much. You do, for certain roles, but not most. Acting is more of a hobby for me.
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Last year I did something that I wasn't comfortable with, and I'm really sorry I didn't listen to my intuition. There was a scene in a movie that felt inappropriate for me, but I didn't want to make waves.. From now on, I'm going to trust my gut more. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say 'no.' - Referring to a torture scene she filmed for Goya's Ghosts, to Parade.
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A personal life is something I would really like to have at college, right now, she answers with a devilish grin. I keep saying to myself, 'If I didn't have all this work, college would be paradise.
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I feel very at home in an urban, rough environment.
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I'm not planning to be an actress as an adult, I'm planning other things for my future. Source: Venice Magazine July 1995.
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After seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to be is an astronaut. I'm dying to go to space camp next summer!.
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Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
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I'm just as bad as anyone else, I love reading that stuff. And if it makes someone's day a little happier? I really couldn't care less.
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Oh God, I was so awful in that. My agents said, 'Well, you just don't turn down Woody Allen.' But I was so wrong because there was so much improvisation and I just couldn't do it.
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I've been lucky enough that most of my big falls have been missed by the tabloids. And I think the other people have not been so lucky. It's a tricky thing, and not necessarily a positive thing,that young people are working and seeking this kind of attention. Getting this sort of attention changes them.
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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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I'm not a big designer-clothes person anymore. I just can't deal with the materialism that goes along with it all.
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I love Moby, but it's more intense than a romance. It's a really good friendship. A soul connection.
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I'm not very shy. And people think I'm serious. I come off as very serious, but I'm not. I know how to have a good time. I know how to party.
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I remember I had a boyfriend, and I kissed him on the first date, and they would call me 'whore.
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I just pick what I like best. I get opinions from my manager and my parents, but often it's just that I feel it. I don't have a map that I'm trying to follow to get to the gold.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
As ridiculous as it is. I know many more people more qualified than I am to be a role model! I am in a position to be a role model. More people see me and hear me and listen to my words than, for example, my professors at school.. I have this kind of stage where people will listen to me.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'll get earrings at Target that are $1.50, and people will be like, 'Those are gorgeous! Where'd you get them?'.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Dying without leaving a mark and never finding love or happiness became more normal, but also more trivial for me because I had the privilege of life.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
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Being an 'old soul' means that you have knowledge that you wouldn't necessarily have at your age. And knowing that, I guess that means that I am one.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I didn't feel exploited at all. I understood everything I was doing. It wasn't like some dirty old man was tricking me into something.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I was walking out and someone shouted: 'Oh, my God, it's Winona Ryder!' I was like: 'I don't look like her!'.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'm ready to ditch the movies and keep at the books. There are so many other things, and it would feel limiting to say, 'Acting is it for me.'.. I love psychology. That's what I'm studying right now. It would probably be difficult, because of my current occupation, to become a clinical psychologist, but I could certainly do research. And I'd like to have a family someday, too.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
There were stories in the house of what had happened to them (her grandparents during the Holocaust), and it wasn't that much talked about. I had to go on a website to read my grandfather's descriptions of what happened to the family.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
You should have checked me out when I was 13. I was locking myself in the bathroom, threatening to kill myself -- being so mean to my mom and fighting with her her all the time. Girls are horrible. I hope I have boys.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I actually am starting to feel I should start a revolution against heels, even though that wouldn't be a dramatic revolution. Everyone around me says, 'You have to wear heels.' It's based on some silly concept that longer legs are more beautiful.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My contemporaries in Israel have a love for life that's amazing. There, there is not the luxurious and rich existence of material goods of Hollywood films, every day they struggle to survive, but they still have an enthusiasm difficult to find elsewhere.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I was sleeping five hours a night and we were running from location to location and making up the story as we went along. There's a scene where my arms are uncovered and I'm very close to the guy. People got upset and we moved to another place. It was just crazy because they were calling us Nazis, and I think that's a little much.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My best friend Rachael is totally my soul mate. She's so amazing and so cool. We're always saying the exact same thing at the same time, we read each other's minds and feel each other's feelings. We can have really deep intellectual discussions, and then the next second be beating each other up and laughing about stupid things.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
After taking 10 college English classes now, I start looking for different things in scripts, and it's somewhat depressing not to find them.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
When I finished V for Vendetta (2005), I went for a few days as sort of a birthday present for myself. I went out into the desert and an amazing storm was taking place, which is so unusual in the desert. I ended up in a tent with the six strangers whom I had just met, and had traveled with earlier on camel back. There we were, watching this amazing lightening in the middle of the desert. The tent was shaking and it was a really exciting experience.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I don't really like getting recognised; it makes me very uncomfortable getting stared at.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Sometimes I think people who are unattractive have it easier.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I was like the grandma in the car sitting knitting in the corner.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruined my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Now I'm like the big nerd, everyone's like yeah applaud the nerd.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
And sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are—like picking their nose. That's when you know someone is really comfortable around you.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I don't really know if acting would have ultimately become my passion as an adult, or if there's something else I would have found had I not been in the pizza shop. That's what college is helping me investigate.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My wildest recent day was, I had a 25-page paper due, and I was actively, you know, typing away, and it's due in about five minutes, I go to print it out, and when it prints out there's no margins on the paper. So, I check my margins and they were 0.3 inches, which is not very much. So I changed it to one inch, and it turned out to be 35 pages. So this is like, the craziest, wackiest thing I've done in recent times. So I'm like 'Oh no, I've got ten pages extra', so I, you know, decreased font size and spacing and..
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I just think hands are so expressive and beautiful.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I get like 400 Holocaust scripts. That's what you get for being the openly Jewish actress!.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I know how to make myself sound really smart and impress people but a lot of it is hollow. I'm a 19-year-old girl, I'm not that much of an interesting person yet.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'm just trying to be true to who I am and not let anyone define me except for myself, I'm not trying to have a magazine call me the 'It Girl.'.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
No, but I've been thinking about it a lot. I love acting, but I don't know if there's something out there that I love more. That's what college is going to be about for me - checking things out. (Interview October 1999).
~ Natalie Porman Quote
You have to accept something that when you wake up in the morning, makes you feel good, just knowing you're gonna go into work and help someone.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
When asked about her prom dress: A designer is going to give me something to wear. It's the most amazing perk I have.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I came home feeling stressed out thinking 'I've got too much work to do,' so instead of sitting down and doing it I said, 'I'm gonna bake.' [laughs] So I made a pie.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
In the year 2000, someone is going to get me as a Christmas present.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I don't really know what I'm gonna do past next week.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My favourite director is the one that says I am horrible.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I got to travel the world and meet really amazing people. Like I met Leonardo DiCaprio at a party when I was 14, so I would come home and my friends would be like, 'Oh, we drank beer this weekend,' and I'd go, 'Sorry, I missed that one'.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
At college I began to do research for a professor and so I became part of the organization promoted by the Queen of Jordon: the Foundation for International Community Assistance. That offers microcredits, offering small loans of money to women who want to start their own businesses. The interest is very low and the results are extraordinary.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Let me tell you, this movie's going to be sleaze.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I think there's enough exploitation out there that it's not nescessary to do more.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I see that my girlfriends, already at 23, are thinking, 'What career can I choose that will also suit having children?' And it is limiting. Whereas my male friends aren't thinking that way. - Premiere magazine.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I was always a show-off when I was little. I loved being the little baby on that film set.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My grandfather was a Polish Jew and a socialist, and as a youngster he helped to organize special camps to teach agriculture to all the young men that were moving to Israel, where in 1930, they created the first kibbutz.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
They are all so very different, Episode III is very dark and much more demanding, we all know that Anakin becomes Darth Vader but to actually see this transition is very painful. So when you have such a dark story to work with it demands you as an actor to work harder. So even though I haven't seen the film yet I would suppose that the last one is my favorite. (On which of the three Star Wars prequels is her favorite).
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Someone told me that they saw me on a pair of little boys underwear, but I haven't seen them yet.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I agree with Walter Murch's theory that digital will never have the emotional or visual power of regular film, because audiences respond to absences. Regular film has a split second of blank screen between each shot, which the audience's brain has to automatically fill in. Digital doesn't have that, so it doesn't engage the audience in the same ways. In all modernist literature, the most present thing is what's absent. Like the opening of The Sound and the Fury, where they're looking between the fence. Or in Closer the most important parts, the relationships, are missing and have to be filled in by the audience. Absences are crucial.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Most of my friends, as soon as we get around babies we're like, 'We want one!' And it just seems so much easier when you get to hold it and it's all cute and cuddly, and not crying in the middle of the night and need to be diapered and all of that.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I wish I could say I'm leaving pimples and mean boys behind, but that doesn't exactly happen.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I like more Amélie-type fantasy than scary-monster-type fantasy.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I began Star Wars when I was 14 and I'm going to be 24 when this final movie comes out, so these movies were 10 years of my life and now I'm just trying to do something different.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
This time around I get to show a little more skin. There are some risqué outfits going on.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
She makes vegetarian stuffing because generally, y'know stuffing, they like, stuff it up the turkey's butt and, like, let the juices all flow in.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
While it's the purest form of acting, it increased my insanity as much as it improved my skills. You know, it's 100 per cent in your head.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I can't deal with failing more than I can't deal with this business.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My school is like the 'Clueless' pop-culture school.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I get a copy of every action figure from Star Wars. I send them to charity. Some of the really cool ones I keep. Like there's a snow globe thing with one of the spacecrafts in it, which is also a music box, which I really love.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
When I'm working they pretty much treat me like an adult, but then when there's a break everyone else goes to their trailers and drinks beer and I like, go to school.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I think probably people view me as a goody-goody, which isn't necessarily true. I mean, I'm a human being. I'm not an angel.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My dad had a beat-up Chevy; my mom had a beat-up Oldsmobile. My parents skimped on a big house and fancy car, but we saw every play, and we always traveled.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
What I am thinking about now is how I am naturally and how I want to be. What is natural to me, what should I accept about myself and what it is not dishonest to try to change.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I was this really bossy five-year-old, and I would be like, You stand here, and you stand here, and you sing, or, I'll sing and you just lip it. [She throws her head back and laughs.] I was a really bossy kid, you know.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Giving birth is such a miracle. You can learn about it, you can hear about it, you can understand it, but when you see it, it's so amazing.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
When I was a kid, I was a ridiculous reader—a book every day or two. Kids' books, not classics.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
We all want to believe that movie romance and real-life romance are synonymous. Love, after all, is a hard concept for a thinking person to believe in. But I think you have to. Love is something you just have to take and not question too much.. Because you want to believe in it so much, right?.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'm not going to my senior prom. Boys want to go to the prom with someone that they can fool around with.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
You may be tempted, but you don't have to make out with the person you're tempted with, as part of your job.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
In terms of body image, I think Britney Spears is an awesome role model.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I basically have a little boy's body. They tell me, 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I used to have a hundred friends and ten close ones, now it's like I've got five really good friends who really know me.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'm not trying to have a split life here. In no way am I trying to be two different people. I'm not Superman - I'm the same person. I don't act differently when I'm in my different worlds.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I think I became an actress just so there would be a possibility I might meet him one day — because he's just, like, so amazing!.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
The worst thing is the waiters getting my orders wrong! They get flustered and don't bring you what you ordered, which is kind of funny.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
The guy I went with to the prom messed up his plans. There were no reservations, and we ended up sleeping in a car. That's what happens when you trust guys.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I think it's really difficult to be in a relationship when pretty much every role for females has to do with some sort of love scene, especially as you get older.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I sort of think I’ll never again achieve the performances of my early films.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Every time you hear about something it's like having one of your limbs ripped out, it's your family, your people, and your country.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'm the anti-Method actor. As soon as we finish a scene, I need to go back to being myself, because it freaks me out. But it was hard not to take this home with me. I would feel cheated on when I went home. There were weekend nights I would lie in bed instead of going out with my friends.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
There's a point in your life where you're disillusioned and where you go from being a naive person who will trust basically anyone.. to the realization that not everyone is good and not everyone is well-intentioned. Then it becomes your decision how to deal with that—whether to become bitter and cynical right off or whether to become a good person and just be more cautious in seeing who's trustworthy and who isn't. I think that's the real maturation that everyone goes through—and that I went through recently—and I think it's the turning point in everyone's life.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
There's plenty, I don't want to give them all away because I want people to like me. I have issues like everyone else, my skins breaks out and I have many insecurities, and I'm impulsive often. There's things about me which aren't great. I hope my flaws don't overwhelm my assets. I try and do my best.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
It’s hard to sleep in your old bed from High School.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
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.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Friends is hilarious. They could bring Brad Pitt back on, and I'd play anything!.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
My parents have been very good at separating that. They don't let me use any of my earnings. They pay for everything in my life. They'll pay for college for me. They want to feel like they're still taking care of me.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I don't know if I want my kids to be, like, the kids of someone famous, because I know people like that and I think it's much harder for them to deal with defining themselves.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I was really popular up until 13, really outgoing and bossy, and never worried about seeming it.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
They said it looked like Leonardo was molesting me when we kissed. It was really disappointing, but I wouldn't have wanted to be in the movie and have it look wrong. If I was in the film, I would have wanted it to be perfect.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Acting is very emotional and you really kind of have to forget your intellect sometimes just to become part of the character. You have to become just completely unconscious of yourself, to move into some other state.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
It's so weird when someone thinks that because they're famous and you're famous, they can call you or hug you when they see you. Not to be rude, but if I don't know you, I'm not going to be your best friend on our first meeting.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
Just sitting in a room until 4 a.m. and listening to some other kids talk about what they have done in their lives is just the greatest learning experience I have ever had.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
It would probably be difficult, because of my current occupation, to become a clinical psychologist, but I could certainly do research.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I kind of had the feeling that whether I did well or not, I would have gotten in, it was kind of disappointing, because I worked so hard in school. I don’t feel like I got in just by being an actor. I don’t feel like I stole a space away from someone who really deserved it. I feel like I’ll be able to live up to the level of the school.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I'm so obsessed with magazines. You don't understand—I love magazines. We go to the book store and I am like a magnet. I'm drawn to them. We go to Borders and my friends are straight to the music, but I go straight to the magazines, and I can stay there for an hour just reading everything.
~ Natalie Porman Quote
I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys.
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