Top 120 Natalie Portman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”

— Natalie Portman

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2. “We live in a real world. Come back to it.”

— Natalie Portman

3. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

5. “I’m a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.”

— Natalie Portman

6. “Grab the good people around you. Don’t let them go.”

— Natalie Portman

7. “Microcredit is about giving hope.”

— Natalie Portman

8. “When you get older, you realize it’s a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It’s not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself.”

— Natalie Portman

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.”

— Natalie Portman

13. “We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we’re born and how we ended up where we ended up.”

— Natalie Portman

14. “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

15. “As I get older, I’m more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me.”

— Natalie Portman

16. “I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing – we have everything at our fingertips right now.”

— Natalie Portman

17. “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

18. “If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive – that’s what’s important.”

— Natalie Portman

19. “Committing yourself to one person is sacred.”

— Natalie Portman

20. “Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.”

— Natalie Portman

21. “I’ve been really, lucky and sometimes you think, ‘Why? How did this happen to me – what did I do to deserve this?’ And you realize how much it’s just luck. And then you see that there’s a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?”

— Natalie Portman

22. “I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.”

— Natalie Portman

23. “I really hate being self-conscious – and being conscious of being self-conscious.”

— Natalie Portman

24. “I don’t believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it’s the best way to live.”

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

26. “I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits.”

— Natalie Portman

27. “I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It’s so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself – or other people – in a different way.”

— Natalie Portman

28. “Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.”

— Natalie Portman

29. “Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”

— Natalie Portman

30. “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

31. “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

32. “I’m not a perfectionist but I’m definitely, or well, I like discipline. I’m obedient. I’m not a perfectionist.”

— Natalie Portman

33. “I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.”

— Natalie Portman

34. “I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, ‘Let’s play hide-and-seek.’”

— Natalie Portman

35. “I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It’s literally the coolest place – It’s good shelter from the sun and it’s the most beautiful building. It’s really, really fun.”

— Natalie Portman

36. “I’m trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.”

— Natalie Portman

37. “No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn’t love enough?”

— Natalie Portman

38. “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

39. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

40. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

41. “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

42. “I’m really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.”

— Natalie Portman

43. “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?”

— Natalie Portman

44. “Breast implants gross me out. I don’t think they’re attractive at all.”

— Natalie Portman

45. “I don’t want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I’d rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly.”

— Natalie Portman

46. “I’d rather be smart than a movie star.”

— Natalie Portman

47. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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