Quotes from Natalie Portman

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!

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

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.

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.

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

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

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.