Natalie Portman

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

“Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.”

“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.”

“I remember how to be a person by being around them.”

“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.”

“I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.”

“Everyone dreams of living in Paris.”

“I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.”

“I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!”

“If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.”

“You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.”

“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.”

“I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.”

“Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.”

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