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I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live.

Charlize Theron

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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.
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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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I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not.
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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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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 just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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I've always known I wanted a family.
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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 get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'
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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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