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" 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

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" I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm pretty hard on myself in general. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it. "

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" There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Everyone dreams of living in Paris. "

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" I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it. "

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

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

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" I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking. "

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" 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. "

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