Natalie Portman Quotes

• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  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

• My dad’s a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  Natalie Portman

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

  Natalie Portman

• I’ve stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they’re not being treated right.

  Natalie Portman

• I’m always on the phone because I’m usually not with the people I want to be with.

  Natalie Portman

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

  Natalie Portman

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

  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

• 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.

  Natalie Portman

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

  Natalie Portman

• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  Natalie Portman

• 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.

  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.

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• 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

• Where I live, nobody who’s fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it’s so important to preserve your innocence.

  Natalie Portman

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

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

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• 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.

  Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman (48)

Birth:	9th June, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

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