Quotes from Natalie Portman

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

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

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.

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.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

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?'

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

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

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

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

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

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

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

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.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

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.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

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

You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.

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.