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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?’

Charlize Theron

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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Film Producer
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City of Lakes
Son of my sorrow
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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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We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.
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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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I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
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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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The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
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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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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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[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.
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Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.
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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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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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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.
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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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You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'
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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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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
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You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.
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