Top 120 Natalie Portman Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I’m pretty hard on myself in general.”

— Natalie Portman

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

106. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

109. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

116. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— 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. “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

133. “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

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— Natalie Portman

136. “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

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