Quotes by Charlize Theron

About Charlize Theron:

Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress, producer and fashion model. She has starred in several Hollywood films, such as The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
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I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

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I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

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I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

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They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

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I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

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I always knew I would adopt. Always.

Charlize Theron

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

Charlize Theron

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

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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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I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.

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I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.

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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 grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

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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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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...

Charlize Theron

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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I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

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I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of ...

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I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

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Author Bio

  • NameCharlize Theron
  • Descriptionfilm actress and producer, former fashion model
  • BornAugust 7, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America; South Africa
  • ProfessionActor; Model; Film Producer; Television Actor; Film Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress