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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.

Charlize Theron

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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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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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 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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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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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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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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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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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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I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, Yes, I want to have children in the next five years, because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.
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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
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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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At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
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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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You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
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Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.
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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 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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