Natalie Portman Quotes

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

There is no part of me that wants to have to pull the blinds down when I'm talking to my wife about dinner because some photographer is in a bush outside.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

I've had enough of being public property.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.

I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.

My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At the end of the day, you're still a human being, and I don't like being treated that way - I prefer to live a quiet life.

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

My private life became public.