Quotes By Charlize Theron

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

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.

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.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

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

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

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

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.

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

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.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

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've always known I wanted a family.

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.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

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.

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.

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

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.'

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

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

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.