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" New York is more where art is bought than where art is made. "
Natalie Portman
New York
Where
New
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" I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone. "
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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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" You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there. "
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" 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. "
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" I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork. "
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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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Kid
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" 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?' "
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Mom
Husband
Living
" 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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Father
Done
He
" Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. "
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Me
Know
Experience
" 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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Been
Day
Love
" I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year. "
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Even
Twice
Visit
" 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. "
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Ask
Always
Me
" 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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Day
Pretty
Time
" Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all. "
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Think
Out
Me
" 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. "
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Friends
You
People
" I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking. "
Natalie Portman
Looking
Like
Jewish
" 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. "
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Cute
Run
Personality
" 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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Up
Different
Classic
" 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
Heroes
Love
Now
" There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing. "
Natalie Portman
Doing
Without
People
" 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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Star
Career
Care
" 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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Limit
Life
Just
" 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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Family
End
Friends
" 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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Sex
Think
Innocence
" I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs. "
Natalie Portman
Kid
Scared
Being
" I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults. "
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People
School
Think
" The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you. "
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Loving
Best
You
" A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with. "
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Weak
Person
Real
" 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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Everything
Afraid
You
" 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. "
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Say
Scared
Up