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
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you. – Natalie Portman
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
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
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with. – Natalie Portman
I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important. – Natalie Portman
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults. – Natalie Portman
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
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
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
Where I live, nobody who’s fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it’s so important to preserve your innocence. – Natalie Portman
I was definitely different from the other kids… I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid. – Natalie Portman
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
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
I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don’t already exist out there. – Natalie Portman
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
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