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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.

Charlize Theron

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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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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You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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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 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. Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.
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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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I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.
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I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.
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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 voting for Barack Obama. He's inspiring.
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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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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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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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When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
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I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.
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You have to keep evolving.
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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 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 think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
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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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