Portman Natalie Quotes & Sayings

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

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 did a lot of research on villains, and guys who start behaving nefariously didn't start out as bad people. My research indicates that all of these people were scorned and hurt by love. Darth Vader didn't start off as a bad guy. He was a good guy. Only when Natalie Portman betrayed him, did he go to the dark side. — Shawn Hatosy

Jodie Foster did it, Natalie Portman did it. I think it's entirely possible to juggle university with filming ... I actually think going to university will make me a better actress. The experience of living like that, working to deadlines, living with other students. It's all the things I want. There are actresses who don't know about things like doing their own laundry and getting a bus. I'm not going to be like that. For me, this is just the beginning. I've only shown a little bit of what I can do. There is so much more to come. — Emma Watson

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women. — Natalie Portman

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News. — Jay Leno

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

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

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

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself. — Hayden Panettiere

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

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. — Natalie Portman

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest. — Kenneth Branagh

I know a small part of you thinks you could've ended up with Natalie Portman if you had played things a little differently. That's nice. You can have that. That's not hurting anybody. — Mindy Kaling

There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility. — Tia Mowry

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 really hate being self-conscious - and being conscious of being self-conscious — Natalie Portman

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go. — 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 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 also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold. — Natalie Portman

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work. — 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

'Black Swan' was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. The entire cast was really a dream cast, and it was amazing to work with these powerhouse women that I've just admired for so many years. — Ksenia Solo

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

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

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

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

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 — Natalie Portman

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

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 had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words. — 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'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 doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people ... — 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

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

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all. — Natalie Portman

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through. — Jamie Bell

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want. — Natalie Portman

I really love Natalie Portman; she's the real deal. — Kirsten Prout

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

I was shooting a scene in my new film, No Strings Attached, in which I say to Natalie Portman, If you miss me. you can't text, you can't email, you can't post it on my Facebook wall. If you really miss me, you come and see me. — Ashton Kutcher

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

I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race. — Sami Gayle

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

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females. — Natalie Portman

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there. — Ashley Benson

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

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made. — 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

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

People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love. — 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

Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice. — Natalie Portman

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

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

My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color. — 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

You float like a feather," sings Radiohead, "In a beautiful world." I've listened several times to the Radiohead songs, because it was nice of Raymond to say he heard a bit of them in what I sang. I'm not sure I hear it myself, but I am pleased and touched. Sometimes that's what you need, just a quick casual word of knowledgeable encouragement. Radiohead reminds me a little of the songs in Garden State soundtrack. Now, that's a soundtrack. They were all songs that Zach Braff liked, so he put them in his movie. And there's that beautiful moment near the beginning where Natalie Portman hands him the headphones and she watches him listen to the song and she smiles her huge, innocent Natalie Portman smile. — Nicholson Baker

I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well. — Karlie Kloss

Point shoes are torture devices. — Natalie Portman

One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses. — Anna Holmes

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. — Natalie Portman

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. — 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

Natalie Portman never looks back, ever. Ever! — Debby Ryan

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

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature. — Natalie Portman

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

GHOSTBUSTERS I always wanted the reboot of Ghostbusters to be four girl-ghostbusters. Like, four normal, plucky women living in New York City searching for Mr. Right and trying to find jobs - but who also bust ghosts. I'm not an idiot, though. I know the demographic for Ghostbusters is teenage boys, and I know they would kill themselves if two ghostbusters had a makeover at Sephora. I just have always wanted to see a cool girl having her first kiss with a guy she's had a crush on, and then have to excuse herself to go trap the pissed-off ghosts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire or something. In my imagination, I am, of course, one of the ghostbusters, with the likes of say, Emily Blunt, Taraji Henson, and Natalie Portman. Even if I'm not the ringleader, I'm definitely the one who gets to say "I ain't afraid a no ghost." At least the first time. — Mindy Kaling