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You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

Charlize Theron

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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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You have to keep evolving.
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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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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 look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
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It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.
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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 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 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'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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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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My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.
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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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I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
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Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.
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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'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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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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