Charlize Theron Quotes

You have to keep evolving.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"

Oh my God I am so cool.

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.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.

I'm happy for people who want to get married but it's not my thing. I'm extremely happy in my relationship and I would love to have kids.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"

Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.

I don't like rehearsal.

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

I'm voting for Barack Obama. He's inspiring.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

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

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

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

There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.

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

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

I tend to ... if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director...

I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

In life we want to challenge ourselves...

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

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

Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.

I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

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

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max."

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.