Charlize Theron Quotes
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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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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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I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
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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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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 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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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 can be a really good mother because I'm happy.
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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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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 think in life we want to challenge ourselves.
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I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.
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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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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'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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We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
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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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I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want.
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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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Oh my God I am so cool.