Charlize Theron Quotes

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

Charlize Theron

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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Space
  • Basketball
  • Create

• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Kid
  • Holidays

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Deep

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Women
  • Truth

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Control
  • Alone

• I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Game
  • Never
  • Stage

• Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Progress
  • Lifting

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Focus

• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  

  Maimonides
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Fear

• Ritesh Deshmukh is rock star. He has a lovely family. He works so hard, and he's a great actor. He's funny, friendly, doesn't have an ego, and is so nice to everyone. He's a fine professional, a good husband, and a good father. That's a rock star for me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Value

• My dad was very excited about me doing 'Laguna Beach,' and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn't even allowed to watch MTV!

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

  

  Donald Wuerl
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.

  

  James St. James
  • Kids
  • City
  • Star

• It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Truthful