Natalie Portman Quotes & Sayings

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. — Natalie Portman

We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together. — Natalie Portman

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

I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know? — Natalie Portman

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

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will. — Natalie Portman

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking. — Natalie Portman

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff. — Natalie Portman

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent. — Natalie Portman

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with. — Natalie Portman

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy — Natalie Portman

I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf. — Natalie Portman

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it. — Natalie Portman

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion - they're the strongest — Natalie Portman

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

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive
that's what's important. — Natalie Portman

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

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering. — Natalie Portman

Microcredit is about giving hope. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

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

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character. — Natalie Portman

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two. — Natalie Portman

The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money. — Natalie Portman

I'd rather be smart than a movie star. — Natalie Portman

I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin. — Natalie Portman

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence. — Natalie Portman

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling. — Natalie Portman

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself - or other people - in a different way. — Natalie Portman

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

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

I'm pretty hard on myself in general. — Natalie Portman

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them. — Natalie Portman

I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill. — Natalie Portman

If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet. — Natalie Portman

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. — Natalie Portman

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

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. — Natalie Portman

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

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. — Natalie Portman

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

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there. — Natalie Portman

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 — Natalie Portman

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle. — Natalie Portman

I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be. — Natalie Portman

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun. — Natalie Portman

As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself. — Natalie Portman

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision. — Natalie Portman

I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world — Natalie Portman

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough? — Natalie Portman

Point shoes are torture devices. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway. — Natalie Portman

The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well. — Natalie Portman

Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that? — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad. — Natalie Portman

I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine. — Natalie Portman

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset. — Natalie Portman

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. — Natalie Portman

Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.' — Natalie Portman

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it. — Natalie Portman

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now. — Natalie Portman

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

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. — Natalie Portman

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean ... you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself. — Natalie Portman

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there. — Natalie Portman

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much — Natalie Portman

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices. — Natalie Portman

I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining. — Natalie Portman

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

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly — Natalie Portman

I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me. — Natalie Portman

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

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. — Natalie Portman

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist. — Natalie Portman

We live in a real world. Come back to it. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again. — Natalie Portman

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! — Natalie Portman

I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time. — Natalie Portman

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

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?' — Natalie Portman

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

Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values. — Natalie Portman

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face. — Natalie Portman

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

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. — Natalie Portman

I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman