Natalie Portman Quotes

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

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

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

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

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.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

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

When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

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

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'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

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

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

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.

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

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

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

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.

Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

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.

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

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

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

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

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.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

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

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.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

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.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

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.

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

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

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

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

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