Charlize Theron Quotes

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

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.

I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

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.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

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

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

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.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.

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

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

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

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.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

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

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

I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.

I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

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

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

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

You can live vicariously through the characters you play.

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

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.

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

There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.

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.

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 think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

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

I've never been driven by box office.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

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 learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

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 .

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.