Natalie Portman Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Natalie Portman on Wise Famous Quotes.
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 tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.
Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.
I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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 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.
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.
If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive
that's what's important.
that's what's important.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.
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
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'
The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.
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 are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
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.
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!
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.
I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much
It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.
They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.
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.
The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.