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Natalie Portman, born on June 9, 1981, is an Israeli-American actress. She gained international acclaim for her outstanding performance in the film 'Black Swan', winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming one of the youngest recipients in the history of the award. Portman began her acting career in her childhood, making her debut in the 1990 film 'The Professional'. She has since appeared in numerous film and television projects, including 'The Professional' and the 'Star Wars' series.

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“I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.”

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“If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Enough Feelings Care Opportunity Given Understanding Special Lucky

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“If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.”

Ifs Way Important Destructive Love Life Joyful What's Important

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“People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.”

People Ifs Sometimes Character

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“I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Film Actors Acting Cameras Method Bunch Nonsense Rolling Film Acting

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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.”

Ifs My Own Known Taken Risk Artistic Limitation Personal Experiences

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“It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.”

People Ifs Needs Mean Matter Right Thing Bad Things

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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.”

Ifs Knows Years Firsts Mean Made Stills Film Directors Female Scripts Features

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“I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Knows Kind Children Form Brother Brothers And Sisters Only Child

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“Obviously, in a friendship there are always things, good and bad, that go on between people. You can't take away what's already happened. And if it's something that's really terrible, I think you have to forget about the friendship.”

People Ifs Thinking Forget Happened Goes On Terrible Good And Bad

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“If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.”

Ifs Kind Book Stories Listeners

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“If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.”

Ifs Persons Listening Music Is Communicate Listening To Music

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“Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.”

People Ifs Knows Important Lost Know How Terrible

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“While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in [if he won].”

Ifs World Has Beens Different Running Trump Letters Campaigns Newspapers Candidates Mates Contrast Mike Starks Different Worlds Vulgarity Indianapolis

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“I honestly don't even really want to think about it [if Donald Trump wins]; I'd rather focus on how wonderful Hillary Clinton is.”

Ifs Thinking Want Winning Focus Wonderful Trump Clinton Honestly

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“I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.”

Ifs Care Stars Careers College Smart Don't Care Ruins I Don't Care Movie Star Campus Being Smart College Life Going To College College Campus College Days

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Looks Whole Given Born Findings Pressure Whole Life New Things Better Ways Not Happy

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“A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.”

Ifs Persons Real Shows Weak Feminist Vulnerable Real Person Strong Female Characters

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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.”

Ifs Knows Want Littles Acting

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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.”

Ifs Thinking May Important Sex Drug Majors Innocence Preserves Fourteen Having Sex

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Care Love You Late Don't Care I Don't Care Too Late I Love You I Loved You I Love You So Much

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“Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?”

Ifs States Care United United States Share Lovers Gay Benefits Health Care Gay Marriage My Lover

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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.”

Ifs Real Done Father Havens Screens Real Life Being Real

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels I Can Sometimes Whole Age Hours Sleep Wonderful Like You Appreciation Combination

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“If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot”

Ifs Thinking Musician Hot Actresses

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“If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.”

Ifs Whole Seems Life Is Laughing Laugh At Yourself Garden State

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“It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.”

Ifs Want Age Sex Decision Objects Adults Horrible Degrade

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About the Author

Born: June 9, 1981
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 224

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