Quotes By 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.

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

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.

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.

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

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?'

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

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.

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

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

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 pretty hard on myself in general.

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.

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.