Natalie Portman Quotes

Ethnicity is not a science. It’s how people perceive it.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.