Natalie Quotes

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

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.

Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.

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

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

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.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

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.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

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.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

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

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.

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

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

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.

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

To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

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.

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.

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

Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

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.

I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.

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.