Natalie Portman Quotes, Thoughts and images

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

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

Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

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.

It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.

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.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

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.

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.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.