Charlize Theron Quotes
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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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I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max."
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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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It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.
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A while back there was this fad where a big star would get a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people were like, "No, they didn't produce, they just took the credit." I was flabbergasted. So when I started, people were weirded out by the fact that I was like, "How long is our prep? I'll come a week before that." They were like, "We're not shooting for six weeks."
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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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We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.
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I think that luxury is to be used when you are in your jeans and your T-shirt and you want to feel a little extra special, and you want to go and walk into a store and have somebody go, "Wow, what is that?" Maybe that's the one and only thing you give yourself that day, but I think women like to give that to themselves.
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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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Looks alone won’t get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there’s always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else.
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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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I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.
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I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
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I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'
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The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
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I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.
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When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.
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When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....
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You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."
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If you want to ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.
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I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.