Angelina Jolie Quotes

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.

It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

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It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

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.

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.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs.

I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

I am so in love with my brother right now!

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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.

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.

I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.

I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.

Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

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.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.

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.

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.