Natalie Quotes

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

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.

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.