338 Quotes by Natalie Portman

"Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis."

"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."

"Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch."

"I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something."

"Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'"

"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."

"To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming."

"I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person."

"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."

"As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this.""