Charlize Theron Quotes
You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
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A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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Artists need to express.
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
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In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.
