Natalie Portman Quotes

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

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.

Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.

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

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

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!

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.

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

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

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

Microcredit is about giving hope.

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.

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

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

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

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

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

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

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.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

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

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

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

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.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

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 pretty hard on myself in general.

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

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

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

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

Point shoes are torture devices.

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

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

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.

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

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

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.