Natalie Portman

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.

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'm pretty hard on myself in general.

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 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.

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.

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.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

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

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

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

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.