Natalie Portman

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.