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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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City of Lakes
Son of my sorrow
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I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.
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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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It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.
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I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
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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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The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.
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I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.
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I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
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I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.
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I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
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I havent lost my culture, just my accent.
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I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'
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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 believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, Yes, I want to have children in the next five years, because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.
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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
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I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.
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