Angelina Jolie Quotes

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.

Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

We did work together surprisingly well, more than I thought we would, because I didn't know before we met if we would actually work together really well, and we had a great time.

I like to hide behind the characters I play.

There is so much more to understand.

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.

It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.

I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.

On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

Once you have six children, you're committed.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

There doesn't need to be a God for me.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time.

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.

I think a woman is sexy when she's in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don't think that being half-dressed in little half-tops... I don't find that sexy.

As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

Each person can make their difference.

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off.

I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.

I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.

I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.