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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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Charlize Theron
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 7
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Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them dark films it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.
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And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.
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Modeling was never a passion of mine.
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I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.
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I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
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Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.
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I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.
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When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.
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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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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.
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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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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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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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You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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I love being a woman and I love being feminine.
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You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
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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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I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.
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