Natalie Portman Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“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.”

“When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.”

“I'm pretty hard on myself in general.”

“I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.”

“There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.”

“There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.”

“They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'”

“I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.”

“I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.”