If you want a laugh, pop over to the Natalie Portman imdb page and read all the trivia about her.

I know that that stuff is gathered by crazy Natalie fans and all, but... it reads to levels of pretentiousness that only Goop herself could aspire to.

Some gems:

Turned down a role in The Horse Whisperer (1998) to act in "The Diary of Anne Frank" on Broadway.

So? who cares! (I know that she didn't post this stuff herself, but the item had to come from somewhere, namely Natalie herself.. she had to have mentioned the roles she TURNED down at some point, and in that trivia there's loads of 'em)

Turned down the title role in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), due to her feelings about young adult actors/actresses being exposed to sex in films.

You're KIDDING me. Have you seen the director's cut of The Professional? (Where her character tries to seduce Leon and the director ended up cutting it because the screening audiences couldn't stop nervously / uncomfortably laughing during the scene?) Yeah. Cram it, Nat.

Fashion designer Zac Posen refers to her as his "muse."

Says her performances in Everyone Says I Love You (1996) is her worst. Her failure, she believes, is her inability to improvise.

In 2005, she spent a few months in Madrid partying with Javier Bardem and friends. She was mostly unrecognizable to fans because of her Mohawk.

She became the first client of Artists Management Group to land representation at the powerhouse Creative Artists Agency. CAA refused to work with clients of its former founder Michael Ovitz's AMG; as soon as the one-time super-agent sold out his interest in the management firm, CAA went straight after Portman.

Is a close friend and well-known customer of Zac Posen, a friend of Jeanine Lobell and her husband Anthony Edwards, as well as Jonathan Safran Foer. Portman has also been friends with Isaac Mizrahi since she was 14, and friends with Mike Nichols and his wife Diane Sawyer since she was 15.
Is best friends with Rashida Jones and a close friend of Robert Pattinson.
(Ok, I know the 'stans post this stuff, but... it bugs. They wouldn't know this stuff if Natalie weren't out there herself saying this)

Once during an interview, she offered a metaphor for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the David Hare play "Via Dolorosa." It's about a man who jumps out of a burning building and lands on a passerby, breaking the passerby's leg. The passerby says, "You broke my leg," and the man breaks his other leg to shut him up.
(THANK YOU, NATALIE.)

Paid for all of her own ballet training to prepare for the role of Nina in Black Swan (2010).
(HOW SPECIAL)

When asked by German Cosmopolitan (3/00) if she would like having herself as a daughter she replied, "Well of course. I am a good person, nice, smart, witty, trustworthy, know nice people, don't do drugs and earn a lot of money."

"I don't think I'd be able to deal with just acting, because I don't know if you get to use your brain that much. You do, for certain roles, but not most. Acting is more of a hobby for me."

"I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much."

"I get like 400 Holocaust scripts. That's what you get for being the openly Jewish actress!"

I was always fairly neutral about Natalie Portman before, but after reading all of that? I kinda can't stand her.

Edited 1 time by DeMoriel Apr 11 11 4:12 PM.