Natalie Portman Quotes

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.

I always wanted siblings.

I think that your relationship is always changing with your siblings.

My mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later. So when I was born, my oldest brother was 18. And my youngest brother was 11. By the time I was 7 or 8, everyone had moved out. I went from being with ten people all the time to being an only child. It really freaked me out.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

I don't have a brother in real life.

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

I love having a sister. Its a great relationship that you dont understand unless you have one, I guess.

When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.

Siblings are often very opposite.

I always wanted a sibling.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.

It must be weird having one child.

We're all conditioned that we shouldn't like our brothers and sisters, that we should be angry and fight. But that's abnormal. A lot of people think that the way Serena and I are with one another is weird. It's not.