Natalie Portman Quotes

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

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

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

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?'

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.

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

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

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

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

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

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'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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

Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.

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

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

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

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.

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.

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

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

Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.

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.

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

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

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.

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.

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

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'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?

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

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

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

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

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

I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.

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.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

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.

Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?