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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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“There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.”

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“I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.”

People Trying Looks News Positive Things

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“I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Want Sometimes Happens Realizing Share Lucky Deserve Luck

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“I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.”

People Humans Natural Pay Attention Teach Skills Pay Attention

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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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“It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.”

People Want Bigs One Thing Excited Honour

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“The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.”

People Wells Soul Your Soul Best Things

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“I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.”

People World Way Want Littles Seems Negative Nasty Sympathetic

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

People Ifs Sometimes Character

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“Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.”

People Good People

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“People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.”

People Heart Capable Trivia

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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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“You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.”

People Giving Ends Careful Following Guides Be Careful Feedback

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“Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."”

People Thinking Way Sometimes Disagree I Respect You

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“I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.”

People Thinking Film Voice Machines Answering Machines

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“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.”

People Thinking Film Easy Fairs Direct Pressure Gender Finance Instance Journalism

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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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“Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.”

People Sometimes Reactions

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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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“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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“Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.”

People Trying Real Able Fighting Rights Republican Equal Opposites Clinton Democrat Opponents Equal Rights Uniting Polar Opposites

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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.”

People Want Courses Democracy Vote Register

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“I think Hillary Clinton has made great strides in doing so, even though there are people who want to bring us back to the '50s and still define a woman by her husband and her husband's legacy. But she has proven herself to be a force on her own and is an example to us of how women should and can be judged on their own merits.”

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“I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.”

People Persons Facts Easy Gay Sacred Divorce Convinced Gay People Marriage Divorce

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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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“I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.”

People Thinking Real School Accepting Adults Harder Real Life School Life

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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.”

People Actors Performances Lifts Cents Ninety Great People Good Actors

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“I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.”

People Jobs Artist Fun Groups Middle Normal Appreciate Hiking

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“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.”

People Stuff Saws Directors Scared Treated Producers Stood Up Abusive

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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.”

People Men Want Two Able Parent Men And Women Versions Combination I Want A Woman

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“I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.”

People Way Different Character School Literature Psychology Theory Easier Different Ways

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“I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.”

People Want Phones

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“As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me”

People Thinking Concerned Relaxed Think Of Me

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“I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits”

People Wonder Decided Legs Armpits

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“Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?”

People Thinking Mean Persons Fall Percent Falling In Love Fifty Losing Yourself

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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.”

People World Seems Film Form Used Fiction Audience Laughing Comedy Violence Hearing Violent Pulp

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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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“I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.”

People Thinking Way Should Mean Jobs Actors Fun Enjoy Balance Empathy Should Have Luck Having Fun Lazy Good Times Criticize Consumerism Having A Good Time Dwell On The Past

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About the Author

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

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