Natalie Portman

Actress

1981-06-09

Natalie Portman is an Israeli-American actress, producer, and director known for work in film since the 1990s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Black Swan.

Quotes by Natalie Portman

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
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Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
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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.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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