338 Quotes by Natalie Portman
"While Domald Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote a [letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in [if he won]."
"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."
"It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore."
"I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?"
"Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance."
"There were, like, 20 of [Jackie Kennedy's biographies], which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But the [Arthur] Schlesinger transcripts ended up being the most useful of anything."
"As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that."
"I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing."
"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."