Author Profile
Natalie Portman
1981 • American • Actress
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesI 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.— Natalie Portman
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.— Natalie Portman
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.— Natalie Portman
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.— Natalie Portman
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.— Natalie Portman
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.— Natalie Portman
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.— Natalie Portman
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.— Natalie Portman
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.— Natalie Portman
I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.— Natalie Portman
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.— Natalie Portman
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.— Natalie Portman
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!— Natalie Portman