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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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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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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 was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
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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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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 mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.
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I havent lost my culture, just my accent.
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