The 80 best phrases (and reflections) of Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman is an Israeli actress, producer, director and scientific psychologist., in her career she has held the most important awards of the seventh art, such as the Oscar, the BAFTA award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award, all awarded for her role in the swan movie black. But in addition to being a great actress from a very young age, beginning with her role in León and standing out in Star Wars, she is also a psychologist graduated from Harvard, specializing in educational psychology.
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Great phrases by Natalie Portman
To commemorate his acting career and his personal achievements, we bring a compilation with the best Natalie Portman phrases that can inspire you to find the way to those goals you want reach.
1. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.
We are all ignorant of thousands of things that we learn over time.
2. When you get older, you realize that it's not so much about your place in the world as it is about your place in you. It's not about how everyone sees you, it's about how you see yourself.
To enjoy life you have to understand that we are there to please ourselves and not others.
3. If you can't laugh at yourself, life will seem much longer than you would like.
Taking life not so seriously allows us to relax.
4. Cute is when a person's personality shines through their appearance. Like the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run and hug them.
Personality will always be our greatest attraction.
5. I tend to lean towards strong female stories. I want to do things that don't exist yet.
The best inspirations come from those who seek to do the impossible.
6. When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something to be desired. Linda is more like what you want your pet to be.
Not everyone likes to be complimented on their appearance, but also on their intelligence.
7. My father used to say that artists lie to tell the truth while politicians lie to hide it.
Artists throughout history seek to rebel through their works.
8. They tell us to remember the ideals, not the man, because a man can end.
While ideas are eternal as long as they continue to be shared.
9. I love you? where is that love? I don't feel it or notice it, I only hear words, empty words.
Love needs not only to be expressed but also to be demonstrated.
10. I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
Learning is a motivation by itself.
11. I want the world to continue to amaze me, I never want to lose curiosity.
Curiosity is what allows us to experience new things.
12. A world where I can wear what I want, say what I want, and express a wish without fearing for myself. physical security or reputation, it will be the world in which desire and female sexuality will have their maximum expression.
The world that many women dream of, where they can be free and stop being judged by how they look or how they dress.
13. I always wonder, would someone want to do something uncomfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
Never leave your ideals to please others.
14. I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
It's okay to be demanding because it drives us to improve, but remember to do it in a healthy way.
15. Where I live, no one who is fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, it might influence you. I think it's very important to preserve your innocence.
Many of the behaviors of adolescents are established by the education they receive at home.
16. Every time I've seen this world change it's always been for the worse.
Humans harm, but we also have the ability to improve.
17. Is life that hard, or only when you're a kid?
Everyone has some stage that they consider the hardest of their lives.
18. I think the characters we read about end up being more real than the men next to us.
In this case, fiction is stranger than reality.
19. You cannot kiss an ideal, or touch it or chase it; Ideals don't bleed, they don't suffer, and they don't love either. But I don't miss an ideal, I miss a man.
Though the ideals survive, the person who started it all will always be missed.
20. I go to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
Natalie didn't let her acting career get in the way of her upbringing.
21. I was very excited to have to shave my head, it's something I had wanted to do for a long time and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
Talking about the moment he shaved her head for her role in V for Vendetta.
22. I don't mean criticizing anyone in any way that I wasn't going to criticize myself.
To judge others, we must first look in the mirror.
23. I wanted to recognize all the women who haven't been recognized for their incredible work, in my own way.
Part of her speech at the 2020 Oscars.
24. When you achieve what others define as success, you realize that nothing has changed. It is not something that fills you up or completes you, which for many is disconcerting.
That is why there is the saying: 'the important thing is the path, not the goal'.
25. Sometimes your insecurities and inexperience can lead you to embrace other people's values and expectations, but you can use that inexperience to carve your own path.
Insecurity is something that holds us back, but when we work on it, it is no longer an impediment to finding our way.
26. Achievements can be wonderful when you know why you're doing it. When you don't know it can be a terrible trap.
Always have a goal to pursue and your life will have a safe direction.
27. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked very hard. I was a very serious girl.
Since she was little, she was clear about what she wanted to do in her life.
28. Committing to a person is sacred.
Any relationship should be taken seriously, because it is never okay to play with other people's feelings.
29. I think every girl in the world wishes she was a Parisian girl, that kind of stylish confidence and effortless comfort in her own skin.
A great objective to pursue is to have that confidence that makes us feel that we have the world in our hands.
30. I want all versions of a woman and a man to be possible.
May everyone have equal opportunities.
31. Everyone has to find what's right for them, and it's different for everyone.
As we are individual people, everyone has their beliefs to hold on to.
32. I am not someone who sacrifices everything for the cinema, my life will always be more important.
He is aware that not all his life is based on the cinema.
33. Breast implants disgust me. I don't think they are attractive at all.
Refusing the breast augmentation operation.
34. I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature.
Books are the ones that allow us to achieve valuable knowledge.
35. Jasmine is simply the most delicate and beautiful scent.
Enjoying the scent of that flower.
36. We live in a real world. Come back to it.
No fantasy can be eternal if it is based on a lie.
37. The best you can hope for, when you make a movie and put your soul into it, is that people respond well.
All actors want their movie to be a box office success.
38. I think people who aren't in the theater experience that when they hear his voice on an answering machine or something.
For Natalie, we can all be actors.
39. I think the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.
Work is necessary for our development.
40. I don't know who wouldn't classify themselves as a romantic. I think it would be a bit sad.
Is it possible for all people to have a romantic side?
41. Ninety percent of how you learn is by watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors, your performance improves.
Don't be intimidated by those who know more than you, learn from their experiences.
42. I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar, but I think if you aspire to be rewarded in your life, you won't get anywhere.
Awards are greatly appreciated, but that should not define you in your career.
43. The awards are so unnecessary because I think we get a lot out of our work just by doing it.
Awards should not change your effort, perception, or attitude toward work.
44. I want to say that the Internet is the luckiest thing: we have everything at our fingertips right now.
The internet can be a great tool if used wisely.
45. With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
There should be no restrictions between what women and men can and cannot do.
46. There are movies in which we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they are doing.
We don't need to agree with someone to get her point of view.
47. It is much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself, or other people, in a different way.
A more practical way to learn.
48. Eating to me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about food.
A very spiritual and grateful insight into food.
49. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time workers or any combination of the two.
An ideal world is one where men and women can enjoy both their work and their family life.
50. We must seek leadership positions and support other women to do the same.
We all have the ability to achieve great things regardless of our gender.
51. If the reasons are yours, your path, even if it is strange, will be all yours, and you will control the reward of your work in satisfying your interior.
But you must keep in mind that it is something that you must work on your own.
52. We wear black because we are waiting for a new day when the powerful do not exploit others.
The moment when the actresses decided to go black as a protest against the injustices of the industry.
53. The fullness you find in other things. You find it in the relationship with your friends and family. But also with strangers. Your way of interacting with a stranger is key.
All happiness starts from within.
54. She had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but she used to destroy them. He used to draw on her faces and cut her hair.
Talking about her playtime with her dolls.
55. The best part of being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they still have to love you.
Parents are the foundation for a person to grow with confidence.
56. I think people should have fun and have a good time and enjoy how lucky we are to be lazy and dwell on consumerism. But I think it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
Like everything in life, the best thing will always be to maintain a balance.
57. I've gotten used to a big divide between what people believe and what I know is real.
Each person has the truth of it, that is why it is important to build our own beliefs.
58. People like to believe in fairy tales.
We all dream of having a happy ending.
59. You know, I'm much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way religion is done there.
Culture is in the people who share the same traditions.
60. I grew up in classic Jewish American suburbs, which have a completely different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
Talking about the place where his childhood happened.
61. I was very into dancing, I taught six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
The beginning of his dream.
62. That world we want to build is the opposite of Puritanism.
Destroying the traditional ideas of the role of women in society.
63. Being different is comforting because you see the world from a different perspective.
When you find your own path, you are able to learn from every experience you can.
64. I love math because every problem has a solution.
A math fanatic.
65. Sometimes I had a hard time distinguishing what was real and what was an act.
Many actors blur the line between themselves and their characters.
66. They can stop him, they can kill him, they can forget him, but 400 years later ideals can still change the world.
As the saying goes, the man can die, but not the idea.
67. I'm a Gemini so I change my mind every day.
Gemini represents constant change and polarities.
68. I am not someone who sacrifices everything for the cinema, my life will always be more important.
She demonstrated it perfectly by graduating in psychology while filming Star Wars.
69. I always think that the most romantic books or movies are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it hurts so much to watch it.
The heaviest romances are those that don't end up happening.
70. Some relationships are not true relationships. And usually when the other person does something really terrible, you know it. And that's when it's time to move on.
Not all relationships are good for you, especially if it hurts you.
71. The moment you accept the idea that you are above others, that is the moment you need to get slapped in the face.
No one should be above another.
72. Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
There are men who see an intelligent woman as a threat.
73. Until it is normalized that at least half, if not more, of our leaders are women, we will be serving and financing with our taxes a Government that believes that it can decide our future.
Enacting greater opportunities for women to hold leadership positions.
74. It is always interesting to put yourself in the enemy's shoes and find out what they are like.
Everyone has a story that needs to be told.
75. Going to a party, for me, is just as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting through a lecture.
You can learn a lot in different scenarios of your life.
76. He said that if we ran away, the others would win. That they would win, as if it were a game.
In any conflict, what governments seek is to win, regardless of the cost.
77. I remember how to be a person around them.
One of the biggest challenges for celebrities is staying humble.
78. It was wonderful to play a young queen with so much power. I think it will be good for young women to see a strong action woman who is also smart and a leader.
Natalie loves playing characters that leave a positive and inspiring message for young people.
79. I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious.
Since she was little, she knew that she wanted and had to work hard for her career.
80. Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.
Having positive people by your side can help you have a better perception of life.