Natalie Portman Quotes (60 Quotes)

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

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.

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.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

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.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

There was one reporter from South Korea that thought the movie was about the oppressive North Korea regime.

I just thought it was amazing the character can go from being afraid of being political because of her experience with her parents to becoming politicized and convinced that violence was a way to express your political ideals.