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!

- Natalie Portman

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

- Natalie Portman

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

- Natalie Portman

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

- Natalie Portman

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

- Natalie Portman

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

- Natalie Portman

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

- Natalie Portman

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

- Natalie Portman

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

- Natalie Portman

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

- Natalie Portman

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

- Natalie Portman

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

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

Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.

- Natalie Portman

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

- Natalie Portman

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.

- Natalie Portman

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

- Natalie Portman

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

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

- Natalie Portman

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

- Natalie Portman