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I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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Film Actor
Film Producer
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You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.
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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 want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.
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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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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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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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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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It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.
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I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
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I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
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I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'
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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've always known I wanted a family.
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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
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My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.
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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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My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.
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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?’
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My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.
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People always say to me, What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies. And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.
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