Natalie Portman's Quotes

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

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

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

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

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 remember how to be a person by being around them.

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

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