Natalie Portman: Quotes about thinking

Natalie Portman is Israeli-American actress. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

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“It was wonderful playing a young queen with so much power. I think it will be good for young women to see a strong woman of action who is also smart and a leader.”

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman, quoted in The Phantom Menace "Production Notes". I wear a diaper in lucy in the sky

“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.”

Natalie Portman

Ingenue interview, March 1996 by Ted Demme, Ingrid Sischy http://www.natalieportman.com/articles/nparticles_en.php?viewarticle=1&article_number=20

“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. Our job is to imagine what someone else's life is like. And if you can't do that in real life, if you can't do that as a human being, then good luck as an actor…. I just think it's an important thing to engage in the world. And it's just too easy not to in our society.”

Natalie Portman

Inside the Actor's Studio interview by James Lipton, New School University, November 21, 2004 http://www.natalieportman.com/npcom.php?page_number=24&limit=100&view=