Natalie Portman Quotes (60 Quotes)


    I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

    People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself.

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

    I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

    Yeah, this is my crowd. They're really wonderful to me.


    I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

    My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

    They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

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

    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'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

    I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

    I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

    This movie asks, when is violence ever justified And it makes us wary of labels like terrorism. Obviously most people, unless they're Gandhi-like pacifists, can imagine some situation in which violence is a justifiable means to overcome injustice. It makes us realize that it's subjective you have to agree with the cause in order to justify the violence.

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

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

    I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

    I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

    I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

    I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

    You could certainly draw a modern parallel with America, couldn't you

    It's not really a problem for me. It seems like they take on the same people all the time, unfortunately for them. I've been lucky enough to have been respected by journalists.

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


    Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

    When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

    I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

    Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

    I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

    I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood.

    When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.


    I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.


    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.

    My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

    I get no say in my weapons, I always get like a blow-dryer. It totally looks like I just came from doing my hair.

    Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

    There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

    She's really explaining things to them that they probably knew when they were kids. Now, as they're growing up ... they're starting to analyze everything to death they kind of forget those simple logical things that kids know.

    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.

    People will think I'm a neo-Nazi or a cancer victim or a lesbian.

    If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

    I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

    There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

    Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.

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

    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.

    I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

    I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'


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