Charlize Theron famous quotes

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged...
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Judgmental

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

#Boys #Glasses #Bigs

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#People #Negative #Hiv

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Hbo #People

Get on my Harley and act like a guy.
-- Charlize Theron

#Guy #Harley

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

#Opportunity #Actors #Truthful

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.
-- Charlize Theron

#Love Is #Being A Woman #Feminine

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?'"
-- Charlize Theron

#Games #Watches #Thrones

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.
-- Charlize Theron

#Nice #Thinking #Issues

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."
-- Charlize Theron

#Home #Thinking #Mad

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

#Girl #Play #Dresses

I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.
-- Charlize Theron

#Girl #School #Jail

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.
-- Charlize Theron

#Men #Thinking #Interesting

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
-- Charlize Theron

#Awards #Serious #Winner

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

#Just Being

I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.
-- Charlize Theron

#Hate #Tables #I Hate

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
-- Charlize Theron

#Fashion #Animal #Needs

I don't like rehearsal.
-- Charlize Theron

#Rehearsal

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
-- Charlize Theron

#Beautiful #Happy Life #Very Happy

Oh my God I am so cool.
-- Charlize Theron

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

#Hair #High Heels #Color

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

#Hands #Ruined #Materials

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

#Relationship #Watches #Kind

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
-- Charlize Theron

#Hunger #Feels #Stills

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.
-- Charlize Theron

#Bad Day #Yeah #Humans

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Needs #Damage

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #People #Want

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
-- Charlize Theron

#People #Trying #Despise

I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Creative #Pace

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

#Acceptance #Equality #Marriage Equality

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.
-- Charlize Theron

#Trying #Kind #Sometimes

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Jeans #Guy #Stuff

I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes.
-- Charlize Theron

#Mean #Thinking #Feelings

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
-- Charlize Theron

#Jobs #Years #Bigs

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #People #Empathy

I always knew I would adopt. Always.
-- Charlize Theron

When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Long #Use

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
-- Charlize Theron

#Women #Thinking #Hymns

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

#Blade Runner #Way #Looks

I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Differences #Said

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"
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Shoes #Littles

Like, I think I ***** out. So, I'm not that kind of person.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking # #Kind

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Differences #People #Good Movie

I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
-- Charlize Theron

#Jobs #Life And Love #Thinking

The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
-- Charlize Theron

#Fun #People #Actors

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.'
-- Charlize Theron

#Crazy #Thinking #Fans

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

#Good Movie #Important #Want

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.
-- Charlize Theron

#Hate #Actors #I Hate

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.
-- Charlize Theron

#Character #Discipline #Needs

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

#Nice #Flannels #Pajamas

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Creatures

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Interesting #Comfort

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #People #Domestic Violence

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Girl #Kind #Made

I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want
-- Charlize Theron

#Sorry #Order #Ideas

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
-- Charlize Theron

#Reading #Looks #World

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Winning #Awards #Office

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

#Relationship #Feeler

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

#Thinking #Looks #Glamour

Looks alone won’t get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there’s always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else.
-- Charlize Theron

#Doors #Looks #May

In life we want to challenge ourselves.
-- Charlize Theron

#Challenges #Want

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Mean #Opportunity #Men

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Play #People #Brilliant

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.
-- Charlize Theron

#Culture #Lost #Accents

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?’
-- Charlize Theron

#Trying #Elements #Mystery

Beauty is more than skin deep.
-- Charlize Theron

#Skins #Skin Deep

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.
-- Charlize Theron

#Want #Shut Up #You Choose

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #Careers #People

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your ***** sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
-- Charlize Theron

#Wrinkles

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

#Character #Mean #Careers

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Careers #Interesting #Different

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

#Important #Treats #Ceremony

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.
-- Charlize Theron

#Fun #Mind #Ocd

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

#Movie #Grew Up #Grew

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

#Independent #Careers #Today