Natalie Portman Quotes

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.

It might sound cowardly, but I do agree that if you speak out about the casting couch, it will end your career.

I've had doors slammed in my face, I've been shouted at in my face in meetings when I've stood up for myself.

When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

I have learnt that bullies use fear and intimidation as their primary weapons.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

Bullies are just frightened people.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.