Top 100 Charlize Theron Quotes
#1. If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.
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#3. I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.
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#7. Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.
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#8. I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
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#9. I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.
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#12. My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.
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#13. I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
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#14. I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
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#15. 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.
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#16. If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
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#17. I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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#18. You get yourself out there and you work hard and you hope that word of mouth kind of carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say "I believe that you can do this."
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#19. I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.
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#20. My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.
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#21. I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
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#22. The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
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#23. I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.
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#24. 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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#25. When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
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#26. It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.
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#28. Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
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#29. 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.
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#30. And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.
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#31. 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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#32. Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.
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#33. I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.
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#34. I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged ...
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#35. Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.
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#36. 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.
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#37. We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
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#38. I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.
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#39. As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
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#40. I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
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#41. Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.
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#42. We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
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#43. You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
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#44. I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
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#45. 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.
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#46. I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
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#47. When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that because it is a lot of work.
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#48. I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
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#49. They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.
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#50. Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.
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#51. Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.
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#52. My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
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#53. I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.
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#54. I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made ... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.
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#55. You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.
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#56. 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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#57. I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.
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#58. I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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#59. 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 .
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#60. From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'
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#61. Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
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#62. I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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."
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#65. I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
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#66. When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
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#67. You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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#69. So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.
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#70. I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.
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#71. I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.
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#72. I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
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#75. 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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#76. I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
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#77. I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.
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#78. When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.
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#79. There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
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#80. And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.
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#81. 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.
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#82. 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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#84. At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
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#85. I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.
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#86. I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
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#87. I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"
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#88. As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.
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#89. 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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#90. The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.
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#91. I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.
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#92. I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'
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#93. I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want
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#95. There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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#96. I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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#97. People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.
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#99. In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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#100. 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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