Natalie Portman Quotes

Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.

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

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

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

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.

I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.

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

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

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.

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

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

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.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

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.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

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

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.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

There were, like, 20 of [Jackie Kennedy's biographies], which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But the [Arthur] Schlesinger transcripts ended up being the most useful of anything.

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

Point shoes are torture devices.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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

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.

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.

Obviously, in a friendship there are always things, good and bad, that go on between people. You can't take away what's already happened. And if it's something that's really terrible, I think you have to forget about the friendship.

We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

I think Hillary Clinton understands the ins and outs of the White House better than anyone who's come before her.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.