Charlize Theron Quotes
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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 am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
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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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I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.
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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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I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
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We value some lives more than others.
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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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Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.
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My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.
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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've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.
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My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.
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I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.
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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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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'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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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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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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I havent lost my culture, just my accent.
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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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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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My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.