Angelina Jolie Quotes
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I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more I got involved, the more I suddenly began to feel useful as a human being and felt like I was finally living as I should be.
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Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.
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The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!
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The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.
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It's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.
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If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them... I bought original, real guns of the type we used in Tomb Raider for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to.
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I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.
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As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
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I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.
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I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.
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What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.
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I am the kind of person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world.
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Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.
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I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.
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No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.
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I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
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I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
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Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.
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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
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These problems do not disappear just because we do not hear about them. There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us about the top stories we do hear. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves.... What is the problem? Where is it? How can we help to solve it?
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I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.