Charlize Theron Quotes
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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 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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It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.
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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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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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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 think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
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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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The fabric of my life is under my skin; but it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when I read material. I have an incredible relationship with my mom, so I'm fascinated by mothers who do not have that. But I've never done anything that resembled my life. People always jump to that conclusion, and I wish life were that simple, but it's not.
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You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
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I love the idea of longevity in this career. But producing is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years down the line." Sleepwalking wasn't a vehicle for me, it was a film that pushed the envelope. I want to produce good stories, versus creating a niche where I can look after myself as an actor.
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I've never been driven by box office.
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I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.
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Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?
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We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.
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I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.
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I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, through getting older and being secure within that.
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We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
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I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
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You have to keep evolving.
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I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.