Natalie Portman Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

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

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

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

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

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

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.

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.

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

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.

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

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

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

Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis.

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

Hillary Clinton wants to extend the Obamacare rule that healthcare companies cannot discriminate against women and charge them more than men for their healthcare. [Donald] Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare.

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

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

Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'

I honestly don't even really want to think about it; I'd rather focus on how wonderful she is. Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate. I think we're lucky to have someone as smart and capable and strong as she is wanting to be our president.

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.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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.

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

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.

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

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

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.

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.

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

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do .

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

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

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.