A biography for Natalie Portmanhasn’t been written yet.
“I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.”
“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.”
“Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.”
“It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.”
“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?'”
“There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.”
“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.”
“I'm pretty hard on myself in general.”
“I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.”
“I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.”
“I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'”
“Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.”
“Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.”
“New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.”
“A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.”
“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.”
“I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.”
“I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.”
“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.”
“When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.”