Quotes By Charlize Theron

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

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

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