Charlize Theron Quotes
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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.
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Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.
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There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.
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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
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Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.
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People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.
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Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself if I got married before they could.
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I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
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I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.
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As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.
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I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.
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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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I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.
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I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.
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I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.
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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.
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I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."
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Oh my God I am so cool.
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Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.
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We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
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Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.
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I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.