Charlize Theron Quotes
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I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.
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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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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.
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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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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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You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.
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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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It took a while for me to be able to sit in a room of studios and financiers and say, "I'm not some hoity-toity actress looking for a vanity deal - I really know how to make a film!" In order to do that, you've got to break your f-cking back.
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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 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 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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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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I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.
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I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.
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Oh my God I am so cool.
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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 make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.
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I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.
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I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.
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Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.