Natalie Portman
The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
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.
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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.
I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.
I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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.
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
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.
I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.
When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourselfCollection: Views
The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.Collection: Ideas
Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.Collection: Inexperience
If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.Collection: Laughing
Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.Collection: People
Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.Collection: Cute
Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.Collection: People
Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.Collection: Moving
I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boysCollection: Girl
If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hotCollection: Thinking
It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.Collection: Shoes
Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."Collection: Thinking
It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?"Collection: Jobs
I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.Collection: Self
Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.Collection: Sex
Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.Collection: Thinking
I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.Collection: Believe
We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.Collection: People
I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.Collection: Trying
If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.Collection: Opportunity
We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.Collection: Grateful
I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.Collection: Scare
I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.Collection: Men
I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.Collection: Hate
Point shoes are torture devices.Collection: Shoes
I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.Collection: People
Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.Collection: Husband
I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.Collection: Jobs
People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.Collection: Character
Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.Collection: Clinton
I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.Collection: Winning
Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.Collection: Girl
I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.Collection: Discipline
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.Collection: Strong
I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.Collection: Jobs