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If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
Charlize Theron
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Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
Charlize Theron
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So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
Charlize Theron
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I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
Charlize Theron
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I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.
Charlize Theron
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
Charlize Theron
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I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.
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I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.
Charlize Theron
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I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
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Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.
Charlize Theron
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Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.
Charlize Theron
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Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.
Charlize Theron
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And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.
Charlize Theron
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People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.
Charlize Theron
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I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
Charlize Theron
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I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"
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I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.
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I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
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I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.
Charlize Theron
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Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
Charlize Theron
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I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.
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I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.
Charlize Theron
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I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.
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