Natalie Portman

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.

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.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

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

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.

Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

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

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

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

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

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

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.

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.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.