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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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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, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.
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I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
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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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Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it otherwise why do it?
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I've always known I wanted a family.
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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 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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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
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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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When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
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So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
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And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.
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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'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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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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My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.
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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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