Charlize Theron Quotes
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There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
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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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So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
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Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy [Lee Jones] was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him."
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
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Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].
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The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].
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You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.
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I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
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I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.
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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 really love having an awareness.
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You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
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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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I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.
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I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
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Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.
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I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.
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At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.
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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 don't want to live in a world with blinders on.
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I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
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I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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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 don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships. I'm not a big partier. I like the simplicity of my life, and I've chosen the kind of life I really want to live. I don't think my life is boring at all.
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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've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
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I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
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I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."
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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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