Natalie Portman Want Quotations

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

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'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.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

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.

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

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.

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

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.