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

- Natalie Portman

Learn, Surrounded, Ninety, Cent

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?'

- Natalie Portman

Mom, Husband, Dad, Asked

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.

- Natalie Portman

Cabbage, Cut, Had, Cliched

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.

- Natalie Portman

Love, Glass, Drinking, Ads

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

Father, Real, Rule, On-Screen

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

- Natalie Portman

College, Career, Movie, Ruins

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

- Natalie Portman

Beautiful, Delicate, Most, Scent

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

Doing, Role, Badly, Young Actors

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

- Natalie Portman

School, Loved, Most, Dork

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

- Natalie Portman

Tell, Like, Going, Cleavage

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

- Natalie Portman

Change, Mind, Every Day, Gemini

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

Want, Next, Like, Camp

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

- Natalie Portman

Loving, Keep, Part, Best Part

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

Through, Like, Shines, Every Time

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.

- Natalie Portman

Pretty, About, Otherwise, Anonymous

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

- Natalie Portman

Doing, Fact, Least, Financially

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

Medical, Die, Chicken, Conferences

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

- Natalie Portman

Me, New Year's, Going, Sitting

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.

- Natalie Portman

Middle, Normal, Having, Hike

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

- Natalie Portman

My Life, Star, Star Wars, Changed

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

Afraid, Like, Maybe, Scared

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

Treated, Before, Set, Scared

I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

- Natalie Portman

Remember, Kid, I Remember, Scared

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

- Natalie Portman

Think, Attractive, Gross, Implants

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

- Natalie Portman

Think, More, I Think, Accepting

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

- Natalie Portman

Dream, Twice, Even, Fluent

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

- Natalie Portman

Kid, Other, Naps, Trailers

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

Fact, Committing, Allowed, Gay

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

Love, Think, Some, Crushes

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

- Natalie Portman

Woman, Want, Full-Time, Women And Men

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