Facts about Natalie Portman 
Summary
Natalie Portman is a famous Actress from USA, she is 32 years old and still alive, born June 9, 1981.
Biography
Natalie Portman (born as Natalie Hershlag in Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli born American actress.
She got her breakthrough as a twelve year old in the movie Léon in 1994. Later she starred in many blockbusters, is one of the most promising and sought-after actresses in Hollywood. She played such role as "Padmé Amidala" in Star Wars movies, and has also played in other films like Garden State, Heat, Cold Mountain, V for Vendetta, Closer, Black Swan and Thor. She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for both Oscar and BAFTA for her role in Closer. Portman also won the Golden Globe as Best Actress for her role in Black Swan and the Oscar for Best Actress for the same role during the Oscar 2011.
Natalie's family are Jews who emigrated from Poland, Romania, Austria and Russia. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a homemaker, who now works as her agent. In 2010, Portman was engaged to the French choreographer Benjamin Millepied whom she met on the set of Black Swan. In June 2011 they became parents of a boy they named Aleph. In 2013 she returns to the screen after birth, with the films Knight of Cups, Lawless (both directed by Terrence Malick) and Thor 2 In the latter, she will repeat the role of Jane Foster, the thunder god Thor, human boyfriend.
Portman has completed a bachelor's degree in psychology at Harvard. She speaks English and modern Hebrew, French, German and Japanese, and some Spanish. She is now looking to learn Arabic. Zodiac etc.
She is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable.
Our collection contains 42 quotes who is written / told by Natalie.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Portman
Famous quotes by Natalie Portman (42)
"Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women"
"If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot"
"I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair"
"I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'"
"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!"
"When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'"
"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"
"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"
"I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there"
"I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike"
"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"
"I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year"
"When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be"
"It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore"
"I'm pretty hard on myself in general"
"I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults"
"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"
"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"
"When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer"
"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it"
"I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing"
"I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day"
"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"
"I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important"
"They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'"
"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"
"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show"
"I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity"
"I remember how to be a person by being around them"
"I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes"
"Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all"
"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life"
"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"
"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing"
"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with"
"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful"
"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"
"Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture"
"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence"
"I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star"
"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 loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork"
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