Angelina Jolie Quotes

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

A word of advice, don't point your #$%^&^& finger at crazy people

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I am so in love with my brother right now!

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.

I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.

It's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.

I don't understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don't know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to.

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.

I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."

I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it always really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership!

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.