Natalie Portman
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Natalie Portman had to cry 5 times every show during her run as Anne Frank, on Broadway, for more than eight months...
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Quotes
  • "There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."
  • "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!"
  • "I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults."
  • "It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore."
  • "There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given."
  • "I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."
  • "Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them."
  • "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 best ways to spend your time."
  • "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."
  • "My favorite director is the one that says I am horrible" -- the director being Woody Allen...
  • "When I got the part, they gave me a script to take home. I remember crying when I read it. I was so excited." -- talks about The Professional
  • "I'd do a kids' movie if it was realistic, but those hunky-dory tales are stupid sometimes.They make kids with real lives feel they are not as happy."
  • "Dying without leaving a mark and never finding love or happiness became more normal, but also more trivial for me because I had the privilege of life."
  • "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 moustaches, they're my heroes."
  • "The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you."
  • "I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star."
  • "You have to accept something that when you wake up in the morning, makes you feel good, just knowing you're gonna go into work and help someone."
  • "I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."
  • "Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence."
  • "You can't the word enema around my mom because she had to have one when she was pregnant with me in Israel. The word coconut makes me uncomfortable. There are some beautiful words, though. For exmaple, I just love the way clutter sounds."
  • "I don't know if I could live with acting my whole life because there are such huge periods between films. I see these 20-year-old actors who do nothing but smoke cigarettes and go to clubs every night while they wait for their next part, and I couldn't stand living that way."
  • "Acting probably is making me grow up faster than I normally would because I'm around adults so much of the time. I'm friends with people much older than me, but they're all quite intent on maintaining my innocence. Yesterday Ted Demme told me that if anyone ever did anything bad to me, I'd have his 20 big brothers rush to my rescue."
  • "I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'"
  • "When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer."
  • "My best friend Rachael is totally my soul mate. She's so amazing and so cool. We're always saying the exact same thing at the same time, we read each other's minds and feel each other's feelings. We can have really deep intellectual discussions, and then the next second be beating each other up and laughing about stupid things."
  • "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."
  • "My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life, I shouldn't do it on-screen."
  • "Sometimes I think people who are unattractive have it easier."
  • "And sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are—like picking their nose. That's when you know someone is really comfortable around you."
  • "I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day."
  • "It's hard for me to raise my voice. When I'm angry, I cry. But I can't do that in front of someone. I go to the bathroom and cry privately. he only hint that I'm dramatic is that I cry at movies. My Girl kills me. I cried at The Sixth Sense. Who cries at that?"