Best Charlize Theron Quotes

#1. 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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#2. My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

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#3. Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

Jack Nicholson

#4. If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.

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#5. I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

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#6. I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

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#10. I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.

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#11. Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?

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#12. I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most.

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#15. I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

Colin Trevorrow

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

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#18. 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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#19. There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

Lena Headey

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

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#21. I've always known I wanted a family.

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#22. I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

Kathryn Lasky

#23. I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

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#24. I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.

Lupita Nyong'o

#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

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#31. Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.

Alexandra Daddario

#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. I always knew I would adopt. Always.

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