Natalie Portman
Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.Collection: Hands
You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.Collection: Sleep
The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.Collection: Pregnancy
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.Collection: Taken
I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time.Collection: Appreciation
I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpitsCollection: People
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.Collection: Book
I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.Collection: Thinking
You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.Collection: Giving
If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.Collection: Love Life
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?Collection: Creating
I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.Collection: People
As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of meCollection: Thinking
We live in a real world. Come back to it.Collection: Truth
I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my moodCollection: Running
I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-consciousCollection: Hate
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.Collection: Parent
Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.Collection: Love Is
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.Collection: Peace
I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.Collection: Skills
I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.Collection: Opportunity
I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.Collection: School
I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.Collection: Mean
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.Collection: Technology
I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.Collection: Emotional
If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.Collection: Listening