Charlize Theron Quotes

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
Charlize Theron

Life, Hope, Mom

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

Life, Hair, High

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

Mom, Mother, Single

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

Women, Today, Themselves

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

Marriage, Equality, Acceptance

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, Working, Room

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.
Charlize Theron

Family, Mom, Greatest

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
Charlize Theron

Life, Peace, Time

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
Charlize Theron

Love, Yourself, Film

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.
Charlize Theron

Struggle, Sense, Moral

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

Girl, Play, Hey

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

Nothing, Trying, Despise

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
Charlize Theron

Power, Career, Learned

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

Time, Care, Same

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

Work, Career, Different

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
Charlize Theron

Message, Condemning, Sends

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

Travel, Whole, Reading

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.'
Charlize Theron

Sleep, Lie, Problem

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

Hard, Play, Working

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.
Charlize Theron

Modeling was never a passion of mine.
Charlize Theron

Passion, Mine, Modeling

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

Nothing, Give, Chance

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

Movie, Watch, Constantly

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

Learn, Beginning, Hunger

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

Work, Career, Decision

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Born: August 7, 1975

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