Quotes from 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.

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

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!

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

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

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

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

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.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

I honestly don't even really want to think about it [if Donald Trump wins]; I'd rather focus on how wonderful Hillary Clinton is.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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.

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'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.