Charlize Theron Quotes

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

I love that old glamour look. I think it's because I grew up on it.

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

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.

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.

My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.

Beauty is more than skin deep.

You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

I've always known I wanted a family.

I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

One thing can make many other things happen.

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

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

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

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

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.

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

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.

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

My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.

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

The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

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.

There's always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. [It] is a very real way of looking at beauty.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

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

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

We value some lives more than others.

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

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.