#hi

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#desirable #guy #i #like #me

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#every #every time #hug #just #like

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. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#answer #ask #comfortable #i #i always

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#badly #consequences #doing #embarrassing #end

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. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#ate #chicken #conferences #dad #demonstrating

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#because #doing #get #i #i think

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#anyone #balance #consumerism #criticize #dwell

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. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#been #brad #brad pitt #crushes #day

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. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#classic #different #different sense #else #grew

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

— Natalie Portman

#exist #female #i #lean #make