Top 120 Natalie Portman Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “I’ve always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys.”

— Natalie Portman

55. “People who take everything to heart trivia – the most capable of genuinely love.”

— Natalie Portman

56. “Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.”

— Natalie Portman

57. “I’ve wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet – these are things I’ve said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.”

— Natalie Portman

58. “I was like a total cliched ’80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.”

— Natalie Portman

59. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

60. “As I look back on it, I’m glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else – my parents, my friends, society – wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I’m not like that.”

— Natalie Portman

61. “Sure. I’ve never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it’s much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?”

— Natalie Portman

62. “I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven’t smoked in years.”

— Natalie Portman

63. “Ballet really lends itself to that because there’s such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It’s such a process. It’s almost religious, in nature.”

— Natalie Portman

64. “A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.”

— Natalie Portman

65. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

66. “As someone who was born in Israel, you’re put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.”

— Natalie Portman

67. “Use Starbucks mints for every occasion – they’re the strongest.”

— Natalie Portman

68. “If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.”

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

71. “I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I’ve gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn’t the end of the world.”

— Natalie Portman

72. “I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, “I’m just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane.” But I can’t do any of that stuff – it scares me.”

— Natalie Portman

73. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

74. “I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I’m always like, ‘Can’t I just wear sweatpants?’”

— Natalie Portman

75. “I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.”

— Natalie Portman

76. “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?’”

— Natalie Portman

77. “I couldn’t be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn’t be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.”

— Natalie Portman

78. “There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available – it says a lot that it’s still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.”

— Natalie Portman

79. “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

80. “Love is very much perceived as “I couldn’t control myself; it’s love.” But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.”

— Natalie Portman

81. “The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control – she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn’t have to depend on him for money.”

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

83. “Everyone dreams of living in Paris.”

— Natalie Portman

84. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

85. “I’d like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.”

— Natalie Portman

86. “When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.”

— Natalie Portman

87. “One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it’s a complete mystery and miracle.”

— Natalie Portman

88. “Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.”

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

90. “I also feel I’m a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.”

— Natalie Portman

91. “I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it’s so worth is. It’s done wonders for my mood.”

— Natalie Portman

92. “If you’re an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you’re hot.”

— Natalie Portman

93. “I’m very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don’t want to be around those people.”

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

95. “My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.”

— Natalie Portman

96. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

97. “Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.”

— Natalie Portman

98. “Point shoes are torture devices.”

— Natalie Portman

99. “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

100. “I always find it a little scary to say that I’m like a character.”

— Natalie Portman