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

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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City of Lakes
Son of my sorrow
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That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.
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I love fragrance for the pure fact that I think it's something that women utilize in a way to make themselves feel good, and I think this idea that we do it for men or for other people is such a misconception.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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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.
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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.
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I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'
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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.
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I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.
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I'm voting for Barack Obama. He's inspiring.
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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.
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You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
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You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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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 .
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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.
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I'm happy for people who want to get married but it's not my thing. I'm extremely happy in my relationship and I would love to have kids.
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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
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