Natalie Portman Quotes

It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.

Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."

I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.

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

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 really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

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

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

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

My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

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

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.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

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.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

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

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

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

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?"

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.

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!

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

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?

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

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?'

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

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

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring the talk always to vulgar, low levels. Even his presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

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

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