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You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Producer
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Voice Actor
City of Lakes
Son of my sorrow
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I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.
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I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.
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You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
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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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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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I love being a woman and I love being feminine.
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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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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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I'm voting for Barack Obama. He's inspiring.
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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 think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.
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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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You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.
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You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes [not]. That's the challenge of the job.
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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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I love the idea of longevity in this career. But [producing] is not about, Let me do this because this might happen 20 years down the line. Sleepwalking wasn't a vehicle for me, it was a film that pushed the ­envelope. I want to produce good stories, versus creating a niche where I can look after myself as an actor.
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I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.
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