Quotes By Natalie Portman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

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

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

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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