Angelina Jolie Quotes
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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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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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When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.
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You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
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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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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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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 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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I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.
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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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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
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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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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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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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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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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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I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
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Once you have six children, you're committed.
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To do something good, it has to scare you.
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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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The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
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I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
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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.