110+ Natalie Portman Quotes (Talented, Versatile And Charismatic)

Natalie Portman is an American actress, producer, and director. She is best known for her roles in movies such as Star Wars, V for Vendetta, and Black Swan. She has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award.

Top 10 Natalie Portman Quotes

1. I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
2. Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.
3. I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
4. Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
5. 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.
6. Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
7. Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?
8. If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.
9. 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.
10. I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Natalie Portman Image Quotes

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. — Natalie Portman

Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all. — Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman Short Quotes

• I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
• I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
• Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
• I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.
• Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.
• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
• I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
• I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
• 'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

Natalie Portman Famous Quotes And Sayings

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' — Natalie Portman

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. — Natalie Portman

Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all. — 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

We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence. — Natalie Portman

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

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

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

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. — Natalie Portman

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that. — Natalie Portman

As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that. — Natalie Portman

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

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work. — 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

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females. — Natalie Portman

I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining. — Natalie Portman

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

Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that? — 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 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 an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters. — Natalie Portman

It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?" — Natalie Portman

It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people. — Natalie Portman

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. — 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

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

Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again. — 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

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 so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings. — 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

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

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. — Natalie Portman

Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both. — Natalie Portman

It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood. — Natalie Portman

Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it." — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike. — Natalie Portman

My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color. — 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 get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me. — 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

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore. — Natalie Portman

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

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself. — Natalie Portman

I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win. — Natalie Portman

By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person [who] is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And [Donald Trump] thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show. — 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. — Natalie Portman

Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis. — Natalie Portman

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

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want. — Natalie Portman

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship. — Natalie Portman

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two. — Natalie Portman

There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself. — Natalie Portman

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much. — Natalie Portman

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. — 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 fact that [Hillary Clinton] is pushing for paid family leave and also for [affordable] childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference. — Natalie Portman

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest — Natalie Portman

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on. — Natalie Portman

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends? — Natalie Portman

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with. — Natalie Portman

Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do. — Natalie Portman

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there. — Natalie Portman

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field. — Natalie Portman

Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people? — Natalie Portman

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits — Natalie Portman

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them. — Natalie Portman

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

I'm pretty hard on myself in general. — Natalie Portman

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone. — Natalie Portman

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

I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one. — Natalie Portman

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

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. — Natalie Portman

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there. — Natalie Portman

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. — Natalie Portman

I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time. — Natalie Portman

I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech. — Natalie Portman

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me — Natalie Portman

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off. — Natalie Portman

I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring the talk always to vulgar, low levels. Even his presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy. — Natalie Portman

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this." — Natalie Portman

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare. — Natalie Portman

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them. — Natalie Portman

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices. — Natalie Portman

I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be. — Natalie Portman

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing». — Natalie Portman

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words. — Natalie Portman

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person. — Natalie Portman

The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money. — Natalie Portman

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business. — Natalie Portman

Life Lessons by Natalie Portman

1. Natalie Portman has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to great success, as she has achieved success in both her acting and academic careers.
2. She has also shown that it is possible to stay true to one's values and beliefs while still achieving success in the entertainment industry.
3. Finally, she has provided an example of how to use one's platform for good, as she has been involved in various humanitarian and environmental causes.