Charlize Theron Quotes
We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.
Quotes to Explore
-
I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
-
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
-
The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
-
Art lies by its own artifice.
-
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
-
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
-
Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
-
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
-
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
-
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
-
It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
-
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
-
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
-
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
-
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
-
From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
-
I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!
-
I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.
-
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
-
Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
-
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
-
We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.
