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Quotes by Natalie Portman

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.
– Natalie Portman
Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
– Natalie Portman
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.
– Natalie Portman
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
– Natalie Portman
I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
– Natalie Portman
I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time.
– Natalie Portman
I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
– Natalie Portman
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.
– Natalie Portman
I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly.
– Natalie Portman
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!
– Natalie Portman
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 moustaches, they're my heroes.
– Natalie Portman
I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
– Natalie Portman
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
– Natalie Portman
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
– Natalie Portman
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.
– Natalie Portman
I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
– Natalie Portman
I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
– Natalie Portman
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
– Natalie Portman
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
– Natalie Portman
If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
– Natalie Portman
It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
– Natalie Portman
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.
– Natalie Portman
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.
– Natalie Portman
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
– Natalie Portman
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
– Natalie Portman
People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself.
– Natalie Portman
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
– Natalie Portman
Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.
– Natalie Portman
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
– Natalie Portman
There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
– Natalie Portman
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
– Natalie Portman
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
– Natalie Portman
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
– Natalie Portman
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
– Natalie Portman
Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
– Natalie Portman
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
– Natalie Portman
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?'
– Natalie Portman
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.
– Natalie Portman
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
– Natalie Portman
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.
– Natalie Portman