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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 think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.”

Thinking Needs Mean Character Able Relate

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“I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.”

Thinking Knows Happens Sides Emotional Intimacy

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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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“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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“I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Hard Opportunity Interest Findings Corners Exotic

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“I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.”

Thinking Men Social Natural Economic Balance Men And Women Thrown

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“There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes Able Opportunity Available Limitation Best Opportunity

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“I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.”

Thinking Knows Mind Knowing Pieces Notes Starting Supposed To Be Not Knowing Starting Out Violinist

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“I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.”

Thinking Kind Important Goal Discipline Focused Hardest Obedient Perfectionist

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“I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.”

Thinking World Children Persons Difficult Worst Losing Tests Optimism Shakes Nightmare Unimaginable Worst Nightmares Losing A Child

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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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“I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.”

Thinking Needs Long Guy Fun Audience Okay Genre Entertaining Sophisticated

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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 think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.”

Thinking Jobs Decision Support Wonderful Directors Female Hollywood Pressure Presses Makers Decision Makers

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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

Author:Natalie Portman

“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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“Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.”

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“I honestly don't even really want to think about it; I'd rather focus on how wonderful she is. Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate. I think we're lucky to have someone as smart and capable and strong as she is wanting to be our president.”

Thinking Want Strong President Focus Wonderful Lucky Capable Smart Clinton Honestly Candidates Formidable

Author:Natalie Portman

“I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.”

Thinking Knows Real Lasts Hours Talking Speech Behavior Shame Criminals Relief Nonsense Comment Disgusting Hurricanes Michigan 48 Hours

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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

Author:Natalie Portman

“I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.”

Thinking Ends Husband Defined

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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 think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.”

Thinking President Clinton Gender Competent

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“I think Hillary Clinton understands the ins and outs of the White House better than anyone who's come before her.”

Thinking House White Clinton White House

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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.”

Thinking Able Wonderful Fields Position Position Of Power Optics

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“Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.”

Thinking Attractive Breasts Gross Implants Breast Implants

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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.”

Thinking Rewards Awards Unnecessary

Author:Natalie Portman

“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

Author:Natalie Portman

“Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.”

Thinking Want Ends Young Actors Sex Roles Scene Consequence Agree Stranger Embarrassing Nudity Family Friends Young Actors

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“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.”

Thinking Enormous Crush Brad Been In Love

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“I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.”

Thinking World Girl Wish Comfort Skins Effortless Chic

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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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“It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.”

Thinking School One Day Scare

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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

Author:Natalie Portman

“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.”

Thinking Beautiful Fun Sun New York Building Library Shelter Public Library

Author:Natalie Portman

“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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“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”

Thinking Looks Girl Boys Focus Taught Personality Aspect

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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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“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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“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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“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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