Quotes from Natalie Portman

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

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

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.

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.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

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.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

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

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

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

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.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

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

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

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

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

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.

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

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

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