226 Insightful Quotes By Natalie Portman That Will Help See The Grander Purpose Of Life
Natalie Portman, the Academy Award winning actress, is also an ardent animal right activist and an Ambassador of Hope for FINCA International, an organization that promotes micro-lending among women. As a child, she loved school to such an extent that her friends used to call her “dork”. Now she hates studying, but loves learning. In a talk to the Harvard graduates in May 2015, she urged them to accept their lack of knowledge and turn them into an asset. Let us now look at some of her quotes in which she not only talks about her works, but also about her learning experiences, her dreams and interests, her childhood, her ideas about marriage and friendship and many other topics.
Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.
![I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/natalie-portman-107788.jpg)
I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.
I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.
I think Hillary Clinton understands the ins and outs of the White House better than anyone who's come before her.
I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.
With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
![I honestly don't even really want to think about it [if Donald Trump wins]; I'd rather focus on how wonderful Hillary Clinton is.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/natalie-portman-107780.jpg)
I honestly don't even really want to think about it [if Donald Trump wins]; I'd rather focus on how wonderful Hillary Clinton is.
![I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/natalie-portman-107779.jpg)
I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.
Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.
![Hillary Clinton wants to extend the Obamacare rule that healthcare companies cannot discriminate against women and charge them more than men for their healthcare. [Donald] Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/natalie-portman-107777.jpg)
Hillary Clinton wants to extend the Obamacare rule that healthcare companies cannot discriminate against women and charge them more than men for their healthcare. [Donald] Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare.
It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.
The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.
![[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/natalie-portman-107774.jpg)
[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.
![Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/natalie-portman-107773.jpg)
Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.
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.
But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.
I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.
My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.
As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.
I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.
Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.
Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.
I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
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.
I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.
I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.
I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.
