Natalie Portman famous quotes

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
-- Natalie Portman

#Love #Girly #Smart

The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.
-- Natalie Portman

#People #Soul #Wells

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

#Change #Mind

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

#Mean #Internet #Fingertips

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
-- Natalie Portman

#Stars #Smart #Being Smart

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.
-- Natalie Portman

#Character #Scary #Littles

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

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Educational

I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
-- Natalie Portman

#Opportunity #Thinking #Exotic

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

#Divorce #Gay #People

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.
-- Natalie Portman

#Men #Thinking #Balance

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.
-- Natalie Portman

#Mean #World #Different

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

#People #Want #Excited

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
-- Natalie Portman

#Love Life #Practice #Decision

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

#Jobs #Silly #Voice

When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself
-- Natalie Portman

#Views #World #Realizing

I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.
-- Natalie Portman

#Thinking #Knowing #Mind

It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.
-- Natalie Portman

#Sex #Decision #Age

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.
-- Natalie Portman

#Beautiful #Girl #Art

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

#New Year #Party #Sitting

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
-- Natalie Portman

#Religious #Shoes #Ballet

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

#Stars #Smart #College

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.
-- Natalie Portman

#Thinking #Goal #Discipline

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
-- Natalie Portman

#Animal #Vegetarian #Animal Love

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

#Dream #Years #Hebrew

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

#School #Dork #Classmates

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

#Years #Grandpa #Funeral

I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.
-- Natalie Portman

#Skills #People #Attention

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

#Thinking #People #Looks

We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.
-- Natalie Portman

#Sex #Emotional #Feelings

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

#Hate #Too Much #Throwing

I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?
-- Natalie Portman

#Thinking #People #Luck

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

#Limits #World #Film

I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
-- Natalie Portman

#People #Trying #News

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

#Dad #Doctors #Mad

We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions.
-- Natalie Portman

#Sex #Media #Emotion

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

#Appreciation #Sleep #Thinking

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
-- Natalie Portman

#Mean #Character #Thinking

I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys
-- Natalie Portman

#Girl #Boys #Thinking

The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.
-- Natalie Portman

#Pregnancy #Men #More Money

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.
-- Natalie Portman

#Men #Two #People

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».
-- Natalie Portman

#Trying #Want #Looks

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

#Use #Mint #Starbucks

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.
-- Natalie Portman

#Trying #Use #Stuff

I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world
-- Natalie Portman

#Nice #Ears #World

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.
-- Natalie Portman

#Scare #Stuff #Pills

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits
-- Natalie Portman

#People #Legs #Wonder

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.
-- Natalie Portman

#Thinking #Emotional #Sides

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.
-- Natalie Portman

#Believe #Afterlife #Way

I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.
-- Natalie Portman

#Golf #Littles #Bigs

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
-- Natalie Portman

#Role Models #Roles #Feels

As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
-- Natalie Portman

#Parent #Looks #Wanted

There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
-- Natalie Portman

#Opportunity #Thinking #Able

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

#Intellectual #Sides #Actors

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.
-- Natalie Portman

#Immature #Realizing #Sometimes

Microcredit is about giving hope.
-- Natalie Portman

#Giving #Microcredit

We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.
-- Natalie Portman

#Grateful #Luck #Looks

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

#Hate #Holocaust #Scripts

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.
-- Natalie Portman

#Laughing #Hip Hop #Want

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 #Actors #Ninety

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

#Cute #Personality #Shining

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

#Real #School #Thinking

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.
-- Natalie Portman

#Hero #Drinking #Glasses

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

#Israel #Way #Done

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
-- Natalie Portman

#Sacred #Persons

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

#Thinking #Awards #Rewards

We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
-- Natalie Portman

#Laughing #People #Fiction

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious
-- Natalie Portman

#Hate #Self #Self Conscious

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me
-- Natalie Portman

#Thinking #People #Think Of Me

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

#Phones #People #Want

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

#Dream #Real #Class

Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.
-- Natalie Portman

#Jobs #Children #Home