Top 120 Natalie Portman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Point shoes are torture devices.”

— Natalie Portman

103. “I’m always on the phone because I’m usually not with the people I want to be with.”

— Natalie Portman

104. “The moment you buy into the idea that you’re above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.”

— Natalie Portman

105. “I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.”

— Natalie Portman

106. “I’m pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.”

— Natalie Portman

107. “I know a famous violinist who told me he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.”

— Natalie Portman

108. “And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.”

— Natalie Portman

109. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

111. “The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.”

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

113. “Actually I want to scare away method actors because it’s a pain. It’s like, ‘Come on, what are you doing? It’s not real. What are you doing? Oh, you’re really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I’ll see you in an hour.’”

— Natalie Portman

114. “I’ve dealt with a few method actors, and I don’t know if should say this, but I think it’s a bunch of nonsense. I think it’s film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.”

— Natalie Portman

115. “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

116. “I’m not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don’t need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it’s fun, it’s okay and entertaining.”

— Natalie Portman

117. “It’s always interesting to step into the enemy’s shoes, and figure out what they’re like.”

— Natalie Portman

118. “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

119. “There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.”

— Natalie Portman

120. “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

121. “People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.”

— Natalie Portman

122. “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

123. “There’s so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.”

— Natalie Portman

124. “I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don’t already exist out there.”

— Natalie Portman

125. “It scares me to think that one day I’m not going to be in school anymore.”

— Natalie Portman

126. “I learned to observe other people – that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.”

— Natalie Portman

127. “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.”

— Natalie Portman

128. “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

129. “It really wasn’t my thing. It still isn’t my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.”

— Natalie Portman

130. “Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.”

— Natalie Portman

131. “Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they’re foreign or share my health care benefits because I’m straight – but if you’re gay, you can’t have that?”

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

133. “The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.”

— Natalie Portman

134. “There are movies where we are interested in seeing people’s lives without agreeing with what they’re doing.”

— Natalie Portman

135. “I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you’re not even looking for intimacy anymore. You’re just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.”

— Natalie Portman

136. “I think the opportunities are all over the place – around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest – sometimes it’s hard to know what you’re interested in, I think.”

— Natalie Portman

137. “Stop the rhetoric that a woman is crazy or difficult. Gossip well. If a man says a woman is crazy or difficult, ask him, ‘What bad thing did you do to her?’ That’s a code word. He is trying to discredit her reputation.”

— Natalie Portman