Quotes By Natalie Portman

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

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 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 a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

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