Quotes By Natalie Portman

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.