Top 100 Charlize 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.
Charlize Theron
#2. You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
Charlize Theron
#4. 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
#6. I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.
Charlize Theron
#7. 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.
Charlize Theron
#8. 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.'
Charlize Theron
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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."
Charlize Theron
#12. 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.
Charlize Theron
#13. 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
#14. 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.
Charlize Theron
#15. 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.
Charlize Theron
#16. 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.
Charlize Theron
#17. 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.
Charlize Theron
#18. 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.
Charlize Theron
#20. I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.
Charlize Theron
#21. My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.
Charlize Theron
#22. Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
Jack Nicholson
#23. If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
Charlize Theron
#24. I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
Charlize Theron
#25. I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
Charlize Theron
#26. 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.
Charlize Theron
#27. 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.
Charlize Theron
#28. If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
Charlize Theron
#29. 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.
Charlize Theron
#30. 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?
Charlize Theron
#31. I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.
Charlize Theron
#32. 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.
Charlize Theron
#33. 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.
Charlize Theron
#34. I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
Colin Trevorrow
#35. 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."
Charlize Theron
#36. You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.
Charlize Theron
#37. 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.
Charlize Theron
#38. I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
Charlize Theron
#39. 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.
Charlize Theron
#40. I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
Charlize Theron
#41. 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.
Charlize Theron
#42. 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.
Charlize Theron
#43. Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.
Steve Erickson
#44. 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].
Charlize Theron
#45. When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
Charlize Theron
#46. 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.
Charlize Theron
#48. I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.
Jennifer Lawrence
#49. I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.
Charlize Theron
#50. I love that old glamour look. I think it's because I grew up on it.
Charlize Theron
#51. 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.
Charlize Theron
#52. 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.
Charlize Theron
#53. 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.
Charlize Theron
#54. You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
Charlize Theron
#55. 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.
Charlize Theron
#56. I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.
Charlize Theron
#57. I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged ...
Charlize Theron
#58. Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.
Charlize Theron
#59. 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.
Charlize Theron
#60. We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
Charlize Theron
#61. 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.
Charlize Theron
#62. As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
Charlize Theron
#63. I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
Charlize Theron
#64. 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.
Charlize Theron
#65. 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.
Charlize Theron
#66. I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she's elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.
Genesis Rodriguez
#67. 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.
Charlize Theron
#68. 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.
Charlize Theron
#69. You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
Charlize Theron
#70. I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
Charlize Theron
#71. I tend to, if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director.
Charlize Theron
#72. 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.
Charlize Theron
#73. I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
Charlize Theron
#74. 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.
Charlize Theron
#75. I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.
Charlize Theron
#76. I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
Charlize Theron
#77. You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
Charlize Theron
#78. I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.
Eliza Coupe
#79. 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.
Charlize Theron
#80. Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.
Charlize Theron
#81. Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.
Charlize Theron
#83. I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse ... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.
Stephenie Meyer
#84. I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
Charlize Theron
#85. I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
Charlize Theron
#86. 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.
Charlize Theron
#87. My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron ... and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
Zach Galifianakis
#88. My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.
Charlize Theron
#89. 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.
Charlize Theron
#90. 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.
Charlize Theron
#91. The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
Charlize Theron
#92. 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.
Charlize Theron
#93. 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.
Charlize Theron
#94. I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.
Charlize Theron
#95. I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.
Charlize Theron
#96. I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
Charlize Theron
#98. 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 .
Charlize Theron
#99. 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.'
Charlize Theron
#100. Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
Charlize Theron
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