Natalie Quotes

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

Without goals, training has no direction.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

The problem is we think we exist.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

You are never too young to be fierce and brave in your faith!

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

A writer must say yes to life.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.

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.

It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.