Charlize Theron Quotes
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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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My interests still are my interests. That doesn't make me a bad mother. I think that makes me a really good mother, because when I go and creatively satisfy myself and those interests, I come home satisfied.
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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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We value some lives more than others.
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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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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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I tend to ... if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director...
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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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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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I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
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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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I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
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I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.
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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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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'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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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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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 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'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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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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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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I havent lost my culture, just my accent.
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Beauty is more than skin deep.