Charlize Theron Quotes

I met a woman in Albuquerque and she came and hung out with me in the trailer. It was really just more to kind of really understand my biggest concern was always the interrogation scenes. Remember, that's why I really wanted to meet somebody because you see those scenes on TV so much.

I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max."

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

We value some lives more than others.

You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes [not]. That's the challenge of the job.

I really love having an awareness.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

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.

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!

I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes.

One thing can make many other things happen.

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.

I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you're with them, you're being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.

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].

I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

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.

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.

I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.