Quotes By Charlize Theron

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

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

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

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

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

I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

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.

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.

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.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

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.

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

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

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

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

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.

I've always known I wanted a family.

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

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.