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://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/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://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/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://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/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://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/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://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/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://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/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.
'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?
I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.
Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.
I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.
I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly
I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.
We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.
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.'
I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».
I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.
I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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.
People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.
I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.
I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.
I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.
Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.
I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world
![You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/natalie-portman-107722.jpg)
You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.
To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.
I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.
Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.
Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.
You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.
I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.
I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
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.
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?
My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.
Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.
I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.
Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.
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.
Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
Microcredit is about giving hope.
I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.
I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood
I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.
Point shoes are torture devices.
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
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.
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.
Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.
Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
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 think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.
If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.
You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.
Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.
I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.
No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.
I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.
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.
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.
Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?
