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My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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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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Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.
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I love being a woman and I love being feminine.
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When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
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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.
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There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
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When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
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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 try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’
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Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them dark films it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.
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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.
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I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.
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Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it otherwise why do it?
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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.
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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 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.
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I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.
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