Quotes By Charlize Theron

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

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.

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

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

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.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

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 think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

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.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 always knew I would adopt. Always.

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

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

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

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.

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

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.'

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

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.