Natalie Portman Quotes

I never played with anything like toys.

Someone once told me that I was 12 inside. The only thing 12-year-olds crave is more Lego. Lego is fun; it's therapeutic. It's a beautiful sensation when you click the pieces together.

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

I loved playing with Barbies - that's why I didn't stop!

I was big time into Barbie.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.

As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would!

When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.

One thing I think about a lot is that one of my favorite pieces of narrative art as a child was 'Calvin and Hobbes.' I really saw myself in the character of Calvin. I was rambunctious, I didn't always follow the rules, I had a wild imagination.

My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.

Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.

As a kid, I liked building a lot of Legos and built houses and did some fun stuff with that.

Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.

Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.

When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother's office. It was full of pencils and marker and fabrics and beads. It was so much fun to be a child and to express my creativity through drawing and to playing dress-up in all of the wonderful and colorful clothes.

I'm no Mattel.

Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.