Quotes By Charlize Theron

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

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

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.

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.

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.

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 hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

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

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

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.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

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

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

I've always known I wanted a family.

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.

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

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.

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.

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

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

I always knew I would adopt. Always.