Natalie Portman

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

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.

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...

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

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

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

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...

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Natalie Portman is one of my favorites, and Jodie Foster. Those two are amazing actresses.