Natalie Portman Quotes

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Fear is where the information is.

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.

I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

I think nerves stop you from doing things. Make you stop and maybe make you withdraw. Then there's excitement where you can't wait to do it.

Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.