Charlize Theron Quotes

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

Charlize Theron

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• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business
  • Interest
  • Seriously

• I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Learn
  • Movies
  • Fan

• If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Interest
  • Killing
  • Probably

• I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Truth

• For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Work
  • Things
  • Interest

• I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Interest

• Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Interest

• I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Interest
  • Subjects
  • Curious

• In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Always

• A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Friend
  • Acting
  • Persons

• To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • True
  • Interest

• Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Initiative
  • Wheel

• I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Life
  • Different
  • Age

• There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • People
  • May
  • Single

• I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Art
  • Interest
  • Image

• Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

  

  Joshua Bell
  • Kids
  • Interest
  • Force

• If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Right
  • Aim

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Suffering
  • Courage
  • Discipline

• God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Heart
  • Speak

• I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Interest
  • Aspect
  • Wheel