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" 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. "

Natalie Portman

Excited

Vanity

Good

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Women

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Going

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Classmates

Loved

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

" Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent. "

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

" 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

Say

Scared

" 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. "

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

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Know

Experience

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "