Quotes By Charlize Theron

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.

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.

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 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.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I've always known I wanted a family.

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.

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

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 feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

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

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.'

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.'

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.