Charlize Theron Quotes
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So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.
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I've had good friends who got married after they've been together for years and they've said that it was the "next step" for them. Or, they've said, "You just can't bail out anymore." And I've wondered, What made you think you could just bail out before the wedding? You don't invest that kind of time and energy with somebody and then just go, "All right, see you later."
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Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.
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I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.
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Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.
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You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
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My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
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I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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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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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
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I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships. I'm not a big partier. I like the simplicity of my life, and I've chosen the kind of life I really want to live. I don't think my life is boring at all.
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
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You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes not. That's the challenge of the job.
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Women are not allowed to be complicated in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.
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I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
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That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.
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I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.
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As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
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I met a woman in Albuquerque and she came and hung out with me in the trailer. It was really just more to kind of really understand my biggest concern was always the interrogation scenes. Remember, that's why I really wanted to meet somebody because you see those scenes on TV so much.
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If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.
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I don't like rehearsal.
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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.