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

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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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I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'
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I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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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 think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .
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We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
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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 want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live.
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Modeling was never a passion of mine.
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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'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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I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'
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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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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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Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.
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My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.
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I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
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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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Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].
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I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, All right, I did that.
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My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.
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