Natalie Portman Quotes
Sad Quotes by 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'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
- Natalie Portman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
- Natalie Portman

Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.
- 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 only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A.
and otherwise, it's only about once a day.
I feel pretty anonymous.
- 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

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

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

I remember how to be a person by being around them.
- Natalie Portman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
- 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

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

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey

Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden

The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright

If something is important to you,
attend to it immediately, and regularly.
If something is not really important to you,
that's great also -
just scratch it off your to-do list forever,
and never worry about it again.
Choose how you invest your time, and honor your choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh