Natalie Portman: Spreading Her Wings

The only way to be perfect, is to allow chaos and madness into your life. -Darren Aronofsky

“The biggest challenge for all actors,” says Portman, “is that you see yourself on a screen outside of your body and have to reenter your body to look at the world through your own eyes instead of at yourself. . . .

Jorie Graham notes that at Harvard Natalie went under her real name, Hershlag, and “the class soon forgot what she was and got to know who she was. She was determined not to let her life run on fame, and not to lose perspective on what life’s journey is for. . . . She was wise enough not to trust the virtual over the actual.”

“When people get older and they’re not good on the inside, it starts to show.