Vox Lux (2018)

Natalie Portman: Celeste

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Quotes 

• Celeste : I am sick and tired of everybody treating me LIKE I'M NOT A PERSON!

• Celeste : It's... it's a weird world we live in, and, I guess, no matter how much you try to ignore all these things that are really happening, sometimes they just find a way to creep in.

• Celeste : [bribing her manager to let her smoke weed]  You can fuck me for a little while we're high.

• Celeste : I used to be treated like I was a hero. And then they start talking about me like I'm trailer trash. But that's what the show is about. It's about rebirth.

• Celeste : You a retard?

  Eleanor : No.

  Celeste : Cause sometimes your jaw slacks a certain way when you look like life's just happening to you? You look like a retard.

  Eleanor : Please don't say that about me.

  Celeste : Only crazy people get aggravated when you call them crazy. So you must really be retarded.

• Photographer : *Are we gonna be good?*

  Celeste : [and dance extras]  *No!*

  Photographer : *Are we gonna be great?*

  Celeste : [and dance extras]  *No!*

  Photographer : *Are we gonna be amazing?*

  Celeste : [and dance extras]  *No!*

  Photographer : *Then what are we gonna be?*

  Celeste : [and dance extras]  *Phenomenal!*

  Photographer : *Yea-yeah! Phenomenal!* Phenomenal! Phenomenal!

  [others join] 

  Photographer : Phenomenal! Phenomenal!

• Celeste : [in tears]  You think that it can't get any worse, and you get diagnosed with fucking cancer.

  Augustine : What? Mom, are you sick?

  Celeste : I don't mean LITERALLY. I just - sometimes you just get kicked while you're down.

• Celeste : [during a breakdown]  They showed us these promos we shot today. I looked so bad, so bad! No don't look at me like. Listen to me. So they told me that the camera they were using was going to be great. I look so UGLY! I LOOK SO UGLY AND IT MADE ME WANT TO DIE! I just want to be a queen for them and sometimes I don't feel like a queen at all. Sometimes I'm just so ugly underneath all this. They can just be so mean. So MEAN!

• Celeste : Now people will try and sell you anything a TV monitor that plain as day looks like shit, but they tout it as "ultra mega triple hi-def" whatever. Their business model relies on their customer's unshakable stupidity. And deep down, we probably sense that their intimate knowledge of our commitment to the lowest common denominator. It's the official manifestation of the increasingly important urge to break with every living thing that has some connection to the past.

• Celeste : She had met the devil and made a deal with him in exchange for her life. He whispered her melodies, and she returned with a mission to bring great change to the next century. He said, "Shut your eyes and repeat after me: One for the money, two for the show. On three we get ready, And on four come with me.