Charlize Theron Quotes
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I've always known I wanted a family.
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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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We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
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At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
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Oh my God I am so cool.
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I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.
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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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Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.
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I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.
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There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.
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I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"
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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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It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.
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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 can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.
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I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."
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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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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 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". Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.
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I was raised in a country South Africa with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.
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I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naivety - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.
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Tommy Lee Jones doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.
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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've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.